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Beschreibung

Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current 'solutions' to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future.

Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate change is only one part, demands original and radical thinking. Rather than reverting to failed political ideologies, the book proposes a post-democratic politics. In this, Design occupies a major role, not as it is but as it could be if transformed into a powerful agent of change, a force to create and extend freedom. The book does no less than position Design as a vital form of political action.

Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current 'solutions' to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future.

Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate change is only one part, demands original and radical thinking. Rather than reverting to failed political ideologies, the book proposes a post-democratic politics. In this, Design occupies a major role, not as it is but as it could be if transformed into a powerful agent of change, a force to create and extend freedom. The book does no less than position Design as a vital form of political action.

Über den Autor
Tony Fry has led/worked on projects in Australia, the Americas, Asia, and Europe and has won a number of national and international design awards in the area of urban design. He has held visiting academic positions in the Americas and in Asia. As a Professor of Design at Griffith University, Brisbane (2008-2014), he led an AusAID-funded post-conflict material culture recovery research project in Timor-Leste (2008-2012). Since 2015, Tony has also worked on projects in Colombia. He has curated numerous exhibitions and produced major multi-media events. As an author of over twenty books, his most recent are: 'Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2019), 'Defuturing, A New Design Philosophy' (reprint of 1999 book - Bloomsbury, 2020), 'A New Political Imagination: Making the Case with Madina Tlostanova' (Routledge, 2021), 'Writing Design Fiction: Relocation a City in Crisis' (Bloomsbury), 2021. He has also published two novels.
Zusammenfassung
Also available in hardback, 9781847885685 £50.00 (November 2010)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction

PART ONE: DESIGN, POLITICS, & DEFUTURING

1. Facing Finitude

2. Totally Inadequate Solutions

3. Redirection: Design & Things

PART TWO: RE-FRAMING THE POLITICAL

4. The Political, Sovereignty & Design

5. The Shadow of Carl Schmitt's Politics

6. Pluralism is a Political Problem

7. Remaking Sovereignty

PART 3: DESIGN FUTURING AS MAKING TIME

8. New Building for a New World

9. On Freedom by Design

10. Design Beyond the Limits

Notes

Selected Reading

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781847885678
ISBN-10: 1847885675
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Fry, Tony
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Tony Fry
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2010
Gewicht: 0,457 kg
Artikel-ID: 130686916