(Designing) Beyond the Modern

Eduardo Staszowski is Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design and Director of the Parsons DESIS Lab, USA. He is the co-editor of the Designing in Dark Times, Radical Thinkers in Design, and Beyond the Modern series, and Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (Bloomsbury, 2020).Virginia Tassinari is Assistant Professor in the Human-Centered Design Department, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft, the Netherlands, and a design researcher for the foresight and design studio Pantopicon, Belgium. She is the co-editor of the Beyond the Modern series and Designing in Dark Times: An Arendtian Lexicon (Bloomsbury, 2020).

• TABLE OF CONTENTS:PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONi. Moving Beyondii. Critical Praxisiii. The Structure of the BookTHE MODERNMany Faces of ModernReframing the ModernCatastropheColonialHumanDESIGNINGDesigning Today, Tomás MaldonadoCommentary on MaldonadoDesign-as-ModernDilemmaNihilismDialecticsExpertiseDenaming and Renaming IdiocyTomás Maldonado, Design and The Future of Modernity, Emanuele QuinzBEYOND THE MODERNBeyond A Conversation with, Arturo EscobarLanguage Exteriority CaesuraAffirmative CritiquePotentialitiesAncestral Get Out of This Concrete Nightmare!, Aílton KrenakAFTERWORDIndex

(Designing) Beyond the Modern, a superb work whose authors abandon academic comfort towards a beyonding disciplinary era. A book that uses the multiple crises of modernity and its offspring, Design, to vitalize rationality with relationality, opening the field to its exteriorities and to the fluid entry of othernesses.