Thomas Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816698875
- eISBN:
- 9781452954264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698875.003.0015
- Subject:
- Art, Design
The chapter examines the politics of planning and urban design, and how they reflect the oppositional nature of contemporary thinking. Despite oppositional thinking’s long history in Western culture, ...
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The chapter examines the politics of planning and urban design, and how they reflect the oppositional nature of contemporary thinking. Despite oppositional thinking’s long history in Western culture, the chapter pleads for another equally strong tradition: the “opposable” thinking that allows us to hold seemingly opposite ideas in the mind simultaneously and imagine solutions that embrace such apparently opposite goals. Design’s abductive nature epitomizes such opposable thinking, and the author argues for according it a stronger role in politics.Less
The chapter examines the politics of planning and urban design, and how they reflect the oppositional nature of contemporary thinking. Despite oppositional thinking’s long history in Western culture, the chapter pleads for another equally strong tradition: the “opposable” thinking that allows us to hold seemingly opposite ideas in the mind simultaneously and imagine solutions that embrace such apparently opposite goals. Design’s abductive nature epitomizes such opposable thinking, and the author argues for according it a stronger role in politics.
Thomas Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816698875
- eISBN:
- 9781452954264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698875.003.0009
- Subject:
- Art, Design
The chapter considers the issue of infrastructure and population protection from terrorism. As terrorists engage in design by seeking out places where infrastructure is most susceptible to attack, ...
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The chapter considers the issue of infrastructure and population protection from terrorism. As terrorists engage in design by seeking out places where infrastructure is most susceptible to attack, defeating them requires learning from them, observing where they focus their attention, and outsmarting them by discovering vulnerabilities before they do. The author argues for the value of abductive thinking in avoiding potential threats as well as envisioning possible futuresLess
The chapter considers the issue of infrastructure and population protection from terrorism. As terrorists engage in design by seeking out places where infrastructure is most susceptible to attack, defeating them requires learning from them, observing where they focus their attention, and outsmarting them by discovering vulnerabilities before they do. The author argues for the value of abductive thinking in avoiding potential threats as well as envisioning possible futures
Thomas Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816698875
- eISBN:
- 9781452954264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698875.003.0020
- Subject:
- Art, Design
This chapter observes how the abductive approach represents a larger shift in Western culture away from two prevalent mythologies of the past that justified the domination of nature for either ...
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This chapter observes how the abductive approach represents a larger shift in Western culture away from two prevalent mythologies of the past that justified the domination of nature for either theological or technological reasons, and toward a new mythology that sees human communities evolving in ways similar to the rest of the animal worldLess
This chapter observes how the abductive approach represents a larger shift in Western culture away from two prevalent mythologies of the past that justified the domination of nature for either theological or technological reasons, and toward a new mythology that sees human communities evolving in ways similar to the rest of the animal world
