{"title":"Simone Ferracina","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimone Ferracina’s works delve into the intricate intersections of art, culture, and philosophy, inviting readers to explore the profound layers beneath creative expression. His writing often navigates complex ideas with clarity, offering thoughtful perspectives on how arts shape and reflect societal ecologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect intellectually stimulating texts that blend critical analysis with poetic insight, enriching their understanding of cultural phenomena. Ferracina’s collection is ideal for those interested in contemporary discourse around aesthetics and the evolving landscape of artistic inception.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ecologies-of-inception-by-simone-ferracina-9780367858766","title":"Ecologies of Inception","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, \u003ci\u003eEcologies of Inception\u003c\/i\u003e re-thinks potentiality—an object’s ability to change—in architecture and design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book problematizes the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical \u003ci\u003etabula rasa\u003c\/i\u003e, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful embodiment of intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInstead, the philosophy of design developed in the text prompts—through a variety of case studies, thinkers, and disciplines—a collective reconsideration of value, dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design are canonically defined vis-à-vis status-quo economic and socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical assumptions that underpin these practices, showing that they perpetuate the same biases and exclusions that generate waste in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an alternative, the book introduces a nodal and exaptive paradigm for design: a conceptual and methodological toolset for engaging the durational and anthropocenic materiality of the third millennium, and for radically prioritizing practices of maintenance, reuse, care, and co-option.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis approach, which is inspired by (and builds upon) evolutionary biology, technological disobedience, queer use, adaptive reuse, experimental preservation, and improvisational practices such as collage, adhocism, bricolage, and kit-bashing, refuses to reduce pre-existing material substrates to abstract lists of properties or featureless lumps, encountering them on their own terms—as situated individuals and co-authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcologies of Inception\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, educators, and professional architects and designers interested in sustainable design and seeking to develop conceptual and design tools commensurate with the magnitude and urgency of the climate emergency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605616345324,"sku":"9780367858766","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780367858766-ecologies-of-inception.jpg?v=1778135808"},{"product_id":"ecologies-of-inception-by-simone-ferracina-9780367858759","title":"Ecologies of Inception","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission, and environmental collapse, \u003ci\u003eEcologies of Inception\u003c\/i\u003e re-thinks potentiality—an object's ability to change—in architecture and design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book problematises the still-prevailing modern paradigm of design practice: the technical tabula rasa, a tendency to begin from scratch and use raw, amorphous, and obedient materials that can be easily and effectively manipulated, facilitating a seamless and faithful embodiment of intentions. Instead, the philosophy of design developed in the text prompts—through a variety of case studies, thinkers, and disciplines—a collective reconsideration of value, dissociating it from the projects and signatures of any one author or generation. Whereas the merits of up-cycling and circular design are canonically defined vis-à-vis status-quo economic and socio-cultural orthodoxies, this project unpacks the theoretical assumptions that underpin these practices, showing that they perpetuate the same biases and exclusions that generate waste in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an alternative, the book introduces a nodal and exaptive paradigm for design: a conceptual and methodological toolset for engaging the durational and anthropocenic materiality of the third millennium, and for radically prioritising practices of maintenance, reuse, care, and co-option. 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