Description
A new edition of Tony Fry's foundational work of design philosophy, in which he introduces the idea of 'defuturing', a deconstructive method to expose fundamental flaws in the designed world around us.
About the Author
Tony Fry is Principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Australia, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at Universidad de Ibague, Colombia. Tony has held academic positions in Australia and internationally and is the author of fourteen books, including Design Futuring (2009); Design as Politics (2011), Becoming Human By Design (2012) and Remaking Cities (2017). His latest book is Unstaging War (2019).
Reviews
Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy bears true to its title. It's the confident announcement of a new approach to design by a fiercely independent and original design thinker. Nobody has grasped with greater clarity design's role in creating the structural logic of sustainability constitutive of today's world as Tony Fry. In these pages, the reader will find a most perceptive exploration of the profound historicity of design, from which there emerges a genuinely new way of looking at the world, one that goes well beyond the redeeming rhetoric of humanism and the nihilistic lucubrations of posthumanism. By conjuring up a critical new awareness of design's powers of world making, Fry is able to craft the contours of a compelling redirective design practice and a novel lexicon for making otherwise. * Arturo Escobar, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350089532
Author Tony Fry
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 470g