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The Design of Scarcity

As growth was the defining condition of the 20th century, so scarcity is set to define the 21st. Already it pervades political discourse and shapes our reading of the economy and the environment. But scarcity is not just the inevitable result of growth and resource exploitation — every innovation results in new scarcities. Scarcity is constructed daily through the creation of desire, it is designed. The authors of this timely essay set out to establish a more sophisticated understanding of scarcity. Moving beyond the idea that lack and inequality are simply laws of nature, they argue that scarcity can be challenged. The message for architects and designers — experts in working with constraints — is that scarcity is a process, and one that can be productive. This essay asks us to throw out our simplistic Malthusian graphs and escape the stranglehold that scarcity has on our imaginations.
60 бумажных страниц
Правообладатель
Bookwire
Дата публикации оригинала
2014
Год выхода издания
2014
Издательство
Strelka Press
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  • Lera Shapikaделится впечатлением5 лет назад
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    Написана на немного сложном английском, но прочесть стоит. Интересный взгляд на проблему Дефицита и как дизайн может помочь изменить привычный ход событий.

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  • Lera Shapikaцитирует5 лет назад
    We need to reject the idea that human desire is tied simply to unlimited needs, and instead use desire as an active force for change.
  • Lera Shapikaцитирует5 лет назад
    The creation of lack becomes an art of capitalist society, restricting access to commodities in order to create endless want. Desire is thus artificially manipulated by the market: it is reduced to the lack of commodity, extinguishing the multiple facets of what desire can mean to life
  • Lera Shapikaцитирует5 лет назад
    It is also a call to action that asks us to reconsider the relation of lack and desire.

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