Design Shifts: A Poetic Journey Through Our Post-Normal Times

Design Shifts, A Poetic Journey Through Post-Normal Times offers a unique exploration of architecture and design's evolving role in an era of unprecedented planetary change. Through fifty evocative illustrated poems written over a decade, poet-architect-futurist Phillip Daffara examines how the principles, processes, and purposes of design are being transformed by the conditions of post-normal times-characterised by chaos, complexity, contradiction, and uncertainty.

Organised into four thema...