Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : What is cosmopolitical design? / Albena Yaneva -- Waiting for Gaia : composing the common world through art and politics / Bruno Latour -- Nonlinear causality and far from equilibrium dynamics / Manuel DeLanda -- Cosmopolitics: 'to become within.' From cosmos to urban life / Dominique Boullier -- An interview with Andrés Jaque, Office for Political Innovation -- Low resolution for a high (tech) cosmogram : how to handle the Large Hadron Collider / Sophie Houdart -- An interview with Cristina Díaz Moreno and Efrén García Grinda, amid.cero9 -- River landscaping in third modernity : remaking cosmopolitics in the Anthropocene / Cordula Kropp -- An interview with David Benjamin, The Living -- Unfolding the political capacities of design / Fernando Domínguez Rubio and Uriel Fogué -- An interview with Eva Castro, Plasma Studio and Groundlab -- Façades : material assemblages and literal embodiments / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- An interview with Philippe Rahm, Philippe Rahm architectes -- Why cosmopolitical design is performed? / Ariane Lourie Harrison and Seth Harrison.