Defuturing : a new design philosophy / Tony Fry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fry, Tony, author.

Series:

Radical thinking in design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Philosophy.

Design.

Sustainability.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"?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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

- Preface - Introduction - An introductory lexicographical review

PART I: AN OPENING Chapter 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 Chapter 2: Made in America: a world production - America - Then and now - Productivism and a history of world making

Chapter 3: Dwelling in streamlined America - Streamlining design - The New York World's Fair - Utopia: a designing idea Chapter 4: Total design: Europe - The Bauhaus, as told - The Vkhutemas postscript

PART III: ONE POINT: FOUR LOCATIONS Chapter 5: Design and the body of competition - The body - Bodies of the body - The measure that measures the standards - Openings as endings

Chapter 6: Time and China - Time - The years of 1926 - China: four perspectives

Chapter 7: Televisual in-human design - The televisual - Perspectives and horizons - Ecology of the image

Chapter 8: The autonomic technocentricity of computers - The reason machine - The force of design - Reiterations towards making decisions

Concluding impressions - Select bibliography - Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350089563

OCLC:

1181844562

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.