Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy Contributor(s): Fry, Tony (Author), Staszowski, Eduardo (Editor), Dilnot, Clive (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350089532 ISBN-13: 9781350089532 Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Design | History & Criticism - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
Series: Radical Thinking in Design |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: "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, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fry, Tony: - Tony Fry is Director of the sustainment consultancy Team D/E/S and Professor of Design, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art. He is also author of Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Berg, 2008) and Design as Politics (Berg, 2010).Dilnot, Clive: - Clive Dilnot is professor of Design Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA. Recent publications include Ethics? Design? (2005) and the text for Chris Killip: Pirelli Work (2007). |