" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and
practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and …

Abstract Background The 2020-2021 coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is just the latest
epidemic event that requires us to rethink and change our understanding of health. Health …

According to Sylvia Wynter, we are “a storytelling species”: The capacity to narrate the world
might be what we hold most in common as “humans” across diverse geographies. In this …

This article discusses three interrelated notions: civilizational crisis, transitions to the
pluriverse, and radical interdependence, or relationality, as an ontological and political …

In this article, we consider the One Health framework for orienting guidance for animal
disaster management through an ethics of care approach. While One Health was created at …

Challenging the dominant design paradigm that centres humanity in its practice, Designing
for Interdependence puts forward an ecocentric mode of designing that privileges a …

This chapter discusses the re/emergence of 'relationality'as a way of understanding reality
and as an onto-epistemic foundation for designing/ing. It introduces the problematic of onto …

There is an urgent need to understand how private and public organisations can play a role
in promoting human values such as fairness, dignity, respect and care. Globalisation …

Contemporary issues involving knowledge and science examined from a constructivist-
pragmatist perspective often labeled" relativism." Individual chapters include a review of the …