Clever Design in Critical Times: Conceptualizing the Callidocene

Contributor(s): Meyer, Guilherme (Contribution by), Shin, Cliff (Contribution by), Salamanca, Juan (Contribution by), Wiens, Brianna I (Contribution by), Dobson, Teresa M (Contribution by), Rosa, Juan de la (Contribution by), Derksen, Gerry (Contribution by), MacDonald, Shana (Contribution by), Triska, Ricardo (Contribution by), Ruecker, Stan (Contribution by), Wehmeier, Colter (Contribution by), Hoff, Andrea (Contribution by), Radzikowska, Milena (Editor), Ruecker, Stan (Editor), Meyer, Guilherme (Editor), Dobson, Teresa M (Editor)

ISBN: 9781666962291

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Hardcover

$110.00

Pub Date: August 7, 2025

Dewey: 744

LCCN: 2024061626

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.56" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.05 lbs) 232 pages

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Description: This edited volume explores the potential of human cleverness in design to address - or even reverse - the damage humanity has inflicted on our planet. Contributors establish the more optimistic concept of the Callidocene in response to the negatively portrayed Anthropocene in order to demonstrate these possibilities.

Brief description: Shana MacDonald is associate professor in communication arts at the University of Waterloo.