Globalization
…the increasing interconnectedness of people and places as a result of advances in transportation, communication, and information technologies that cause political, economic, and cultural convergence.
Response: Design connections which pro-actively serve this convergence and exert a positive influence.
Post-industrialization
…an economic transition from production to services, a diffusion of national and global capital, and mass privatization which causes a restructuring of society as a whole.
This shift increases the need for professional and technical workers, theoretical knowledge for innovation and new intellectual technologies, systematic technological growth, more universities, more experts to create, guide, and control the new and dramatic change.
Response: Influence the restructuring of society by providing a new paradigm for the development of theory, innovation, growth and change.
Post-modernism
A rejection of modernism… of clear central hierarchy… of organizing principles
An embrace of complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, diversity, interconnectedness
“Postmodernism conceived of contemporary culture as a spectacle before which the individual sat powerless...” - Alan Kirby
Response: Incorporate the critique and rejection of one paradigm into the development of a new paradigm which empowers individuals to create change.
Post-postmodernism, etc…
An emerging perspective…
"Post-postmodernism witnesses the re-birth of utopia after its own death, after its subjection to postmodernism
“Performatism… a new epoch in which subject, sign, and thing come together in ways that create an aesthetic experience of transcendency ...a place where meaning is created.” - Raoul Eshelman
"Pseudo-modernism… makes the individual’s action the necessary condition of the cultural product.” - Alan Kirby
Response: Blend our understanding of current societal trends with the common aspirations of humanity to inspire a new paradigm of hope
Our greatest global challenge:
Our perceptions, motivations and choices…
Our response?
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