Designing in Dark Times

Eduardo Staszowski is Associate Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, USA, and Director/co-founder of the Parsons DESIS Lab, USA. Working to enhance participation in policy development and civic design, he studies design as a method and language, and its role as an intermediary, creating, and orienting processes of social innovation and sustainability.Virginia Tassinari is Assistant Professor at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium, where she also founded the LUCA DESIS Lab; Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a design researcher for Pantopicon, an Antwerp-based foresight and design studio. Her research areas are design and philosophy, with a specific focus on design for social innovation, participatory design and design activism.

• Series Foreword: The Urgency of the PossiblePreface: On Hannah Arendt Kenneth FramptonAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Eduardo Staszowski and Virginia TassinariI: Hannah Arendt & Designing in Dark TimesII: The LexiconAAction, Activism, Alienation, Animal Laborans, Animal rationale, AnthropocentrismBBeginnings, Bourgeois, BureaucracyCCitizenship, Common good, Common interests, Common world, Comprehension, Courage, CreativityDDemocracyEEquality, Evil FFabrication, FreedomH History, Homo Faber, Human rights, Humanity IImagination (by Hannah Arendt), ImperialismInsert: Martha Rosler, Reading Hannah Arendt (Politically, for an American in the 21st Century)In-between, InstrumentalityL Labor, LawM Metabolism, MortalityNNatality O ObjectivityP Pariah, Play, Plurality, Power, Private realm, PublicRReificationSSolitude, Speech, Spontaneity, Stories, SuperfluityT Technology, Thought, Thoughtlessness, Togetherness, TotalitarianismV Violence, Vita Activa, Vita ContemplativaAfterword: Richard J. Bernstein, The Illuminations of Hannah Arendt List of Contributors

The conception of "designing in dark times" developed in this admirable and interesting project is in harmony with the Arendt's thinking and writing. It makes a welcome and practical addition to the large and growing literature on Arendt.