Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice - Softcover

Fry, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184788217X ISBN 13: 9781847882172

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

Sustainability is now a buzzword both among professionals and scholars. However, though climate change and resource depletion are now widely recognized by business as major challenges, and while new practices like "green design" have emerged, efforts towards change remain weak and fragmented. Exposing these limitations, Design Futuring systematically presents ideas and methods for Design as an expanded ethical and professional practice. Design Futuring argues that responding to ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now requires a new type of practice which recognizes design’s importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable. Illustrated throughout with international case material, Design Futuring presents the author’s ground-breaking ideas in a coherent framework, focusing specifically on the ways in which concerns for ethics and sustainability can change the practice of Design for the twenty-first century.  Design Futuring--a pathfinding text for the new era--extends far beyond Design courses and professional practice and will be invaluable also to students and practitioners of Architecture, the Creative Arts, Business and Management.

About this title

About the Author:

Tony Fry is a director of the sustainment consultancy Team D/E/S and Adjunct Professor of  Design at Griffith University and Queensland College of Art. He has taught and lectured  internationally and is author of Remakings: Ecology, Design, Philosophy and A New Design  Philosophy: an Introduction to Defuturing, among many other works.

Review:

"Design Futuring defines redirective practice as a critical new paradigm for design--a way of engaging design and sustainability as they are implicated in and essential to our very survival. Broad. Accessible. Timely." --Eli Belvis, Indiana University at Bloomington "A great introduction to the key concepts and contributions that Tony Fry has brought to the discourse of sustainability, alongside new concepts like redirective practice and practical suggestions for meaningful action. This is original thinking accessible to readers from all sectors."--Frances Whitehad, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

About this edition

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 184788217X
• ISBN 13: 9781847882172
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256