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Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy: Radical Thinkers in Design

Autor Tony Fry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2020
"Once one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history and making of the material world - including design - dramatically changes. Defuturing as our condition forces the generation of a new philosophy of design." With these thoughts this book presents a radically new understanding of the history, context and futures of designing. First published in 1999, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy is a prescient and powerful account of what it means to comprehend that we live in world that is taking away futures for ourselves and non-human others. Arguing that designing is doubly implicated in this process, first in its roles in helping to create the unsustainable, but second, re-thought through the lens of defuturing, as a mode of acting in the world that can help contest the negation of the world, Defuturing transforms our comprehension of designing and of how futures can be constituted. Working not through abstract theorizing but through the analysis of concrete examples, the book uses historical material on design to expose the archaeology of defuturing. Shattering the illusion that the future simply "is", Defuturing confronts designing with the challenge of remaking while offering the elements of a new practical reasoning of design acting.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350089532
ISBN-10: 1350089532
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 246 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Radical Thinkers in Design

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The areas of design thinking that Fry addresses - design futures, sustainability, critical and speculative design - are becoming increasinly popular at undergraduate and graduate level.

Notă biografică

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 Ibagué, 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).

Cuprins

List of imagesTony Fry's Defuturing: A new design philosophy by Clive DilnotPreface to the 2020 editionPreface to the original editionINTRODUCTIONAn introductory lexicographical reviewDesignSustain-ability and unsustainabilityDefuturingRelationalityGuided ReadingPART I: An opening1. TECHNOLOGY, WARRING AND THE CRISIS OF HISTORYTechnology in fluxFrom structure and from technéFrom war to warringThe crisis of the crisis of historyPART II: History, modernity and defuturing2. MADE IN AMERICA: A WORLD PRODUCTIONAmericaThen and nowProductivism and a history of world making3. DWELLING IN STREAMLINES AMERICAStreamlining DesignThe New York World's FairUtopia: A designing idea4. TOTAL DESIGN: EUROPEThe Bauhaus, as toldThe Vkhutemas postscriptPART III: One point: Four locations5. DESIGN AND THE BODY OF COMPETITIONThe bodyBodies of the bodyThe measure that measures the standardsOpenings as endings6. TIME AND CHINATimeThe years of 1926China: Four perspectives7. TELEVISUAL IN-HUMAN DESIGNThe televisualPerspectives and horizonsEcology of the image8. THE AUTONOMIC TECHNOCENTRICITY OF COMPUTERSThe reason machineThe force of designReiterations towards making decisionsCONCLUDING IMPRESSIONSBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

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.