Powering the Commons Through Design: Embracing the Aesthetics of Convivial Imperfection
In this chapter, I explore the following questions:
• How can design strategically strengthen non-capitalist and postcapitalist economies and increase the social power of those sustaining them?
• What role does aesthetics plays in shifting power towards postcapitalist modes of life?
• How can it more effectively contribute to make postcapitalist modes of life both widely desirable and translocally regenerative?
This chapter is based on a keynote at the By Design or By Disaster conference at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in 2024.
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Elzenbaumer, Bianca. 2025. ‘Powering the Commons Through Design: Embracing the Aesthetics of Convivial Imperfection’. In Power in Transformation, edited by Mustapha El Moussaoui, Kris Krois, and Teresa Palmieri. Oekom. https://www.oekom.de/buch/power-in-transformation-9783987261503.