Tony Fry

Defuturing (eBook, PDF)

A New Design Philosophy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350089556
• Artikelnr.: 59895759

Autorenporträt

Tony Fry is Principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia. He is an award-winning designer, cultural theorist, educator and author. He has held academic positions in Australia and internationally and is the author of sixteen books, including Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2009); Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2011), Becoming Human By Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Remaking Cities (Bloomsbury, 2017), Defuturing (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Writing Design Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

List of images Tony Fry's Defuturing: A new design philosophy by Clive
Dilnot Preface to the 2020 edition Preface to the original edition
INTRODUCTION An introductory lexicographical review Design Sustain-ability
and unsustainability Defuturing Relationality Guided Reading PART I: An
opening 1. TECHNOLOGY, WARRING AND THE CRISIS OF HISTORY Technology in
flux From structure and from techné From war to warring The crisis of the
crisis of history PART II: History, modernity and defuturing 2. MADE IN
AMERICA: A WORLD PRODUCTION America Then and now Productivism and a history
of world making 3. DWELLING IN STREAMLINES AMERICA Streamlining Design The
New York World's Fair Utopia: A designing idea 4. TOTAL DESIGN: EUROPE The
Bauhaus, as told The Vkhutemas postscript PART III: One point: Four
locations 5. DESIGN AND THE BODY OF COMPETITION The body Bodies of the body
The measure that measures the standards Openings as endings 6. TIME AND
CHINA Time The years of 1926 China: Four perspectives 7. TELEVISUAL
IN-HUMAN DESIGN The televisual Perspectives and horizons Ecology of the
image 8. THE AUTONOMIC TECHNOCENTRICITY OF COMPUTERS The reason machine The
force of design Reiterations towards making decisions CONCLUDING
IMPRESSIONS Bibliography Index