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January 19, 2012
Tony Fry
Futuring, the City & Sustainment: the Remaking of Design
Tony Fry is Professor of Design Futures at Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane Australia. He is also an award-winning designer, a theorist, a farmer, and director of a project developing an academy of indigenous-based creative practices in East Timor. The author of nine books, Tony is regarded as one of the most progressive thinkers on design in the world today. On his acclaimed book, Design as Politics, a reviewer commented: “To say it’s ‘timely’ is an understatement. Fry offers us one of the most prescient theses for the design of a different possible future.”
With support from the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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Selected Bibliography
- Sustainability is meaningless - it’s time for a new Enlightenment.
- Design and Politics by Tony Fry: A review by Keith Owens (Keith Owens) - Academia.edu.
- Professor Tony Fry - Griffith University.
- Fry, Tony. 2011a. “Urban futures in the age of unsettlement.” Futures 43 (4) (May): 432-439.
- Fry, Tony. 2011b. Design as politics. Oxford ; New York: Berg.
- Fry, Tony., and Inc. NetLibrary. 1999. A new design philosophy an introduction to defuturing. Sydney: UNSW Press.
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