Design, Heidegger, and the Earth

Humanity is racing to find designed solutions to our§environmental crisis. But what if designing itself§was the cause of the crisis? This book argues that§design, including sustainable design, is at §the heart of our crisis of unsustainability. Only§when design s complicity in this crisis is§understood, can sustainable human environments be§conceived. Using the work of the controversial§philosopher Martin Heidegger, this book constructs a§radically different understanding of the design§process. With this understanding, design in modernity§is shown to be the engine of consumption of the§Earth. Ironically, the conviction that that we can§find designed solutions to our crisis of§unsustainability may be the real danger facing the§Earth. For those interested in design and design§theory, this book offers a fundamentally different§account of the design process. For those interested§in Heideggerian thought, this book uses design §to explore the positive role of consciousness§hinted at, but rarely investigated, in Heidegger s§work. For those concerned about our crisis of§unsustainability, this book offers a new way to§conceive the forces accelerating the crisis.