Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

The book argues that design is a vital form of political action, that current political ‘solutions' for unsustainability will fail and that a new post-democratic politics must be created. Design must play a major role in this, to become a powerful agent of change for a sustainable future.

About the Author

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

Reviews

"Design as Politics destroys our fantasies of 'sustainable design' and urges us to face our collective future. Read this before deciding whether you have the courage and conviction necessary to be a designer of the future." Lisa Norton, School of the Art Institute of Chicago "There is no more challenging and urgent political question than whether democracy is able to deliver sustainable economic and political futures. Fry's is the first book to ask this question, not in the abstract but in the context of asking how we make the future." Clive Dilnot, Parsons The New School for Design, New York "To say that this book is "timely" is an understatement. Fry offers us one of the most prescient theses for the design of a different possible future - a time and a politics "to-come" - that we have. We all ignore the messages of this book at our own peril." Duncan Fairfax, Goldsmiths, University of London