Design Fundamentals, The Postdigital, and the Anthropocene

Harvard GSD

In the past several decades, design has been impacted by the digital revolution as well as by a series of challenges linked to the advent of a new era in the relationship between humans and planet earth, an era often characterized as the Anthropocene. This situation necessitates the need to rethink some of the fundamentals of the design disciplines, including: their relationship to nature as well as to space and time, questions of scale, tectonics and ornament, what is implied by the notion…