ABSTRACT
The chapter scrutinises the concept of politics orientated around objects. Putting aside the division between Nature and Society, Latour suggested that politics in contemporary life should be discussed in reference to the nonhuman world. The chapter elaborates on the concepts of ‘thing’, ‘parliament of things’, and ‘representation’. It then reflects on the concepts of ‘cosmos’, ‘cosmopolitics’, ‘cosmogram’ and on the meaning of cosmopolitical design for architectural professionals. It illustrates further how some key Latourian questions – like How many are we? How can we live together? How do we assemble aggregates of humans and nonhumans to form a liveable world? – can be tackled by the various skills of architects, and designers.
