Making the Case
Focusing on the need for innovative political thinking, this book critiques current political institutions and philosophies that fail to address the complexities and crises facing both local and global contexts. It argues for a reimagining of political leadership and practices to effectively navigate contemporary challenges, advocating for a fresh approach to political imagination.
The book explores 'unstaging' war as a strategic response to the inadequacies of current peace discourse and institutions. It delves into the evolving nature of conflict, highlighting issues like asymmetrical warfare, insurgencies, and terrorism. The author argues that the traditional binary distinction between war and peace has been disrupted, necessitating a reevaluation of the conditions, philosophies, and technologies surrounding modern warfare. This analysis addresses the complexities of contemporary conflicts and their implications for understanding peace.
- 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.
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 extends far beyond Design courses and professional practice, and will also be invaluable to students and practitioners of Architecture, the Creative Arts. Business and Management
Focusing on the urban environment, this book explores innovative strategies for cities to adapt to the challenges posed by climate change. Tony Fry examines unsustainable conditions and offers insights on how urban areas can effectively respond to these pressing issues, pushing beyond traditional perspectives to envision a more resilient future for urban living.
The last in Tony Fry's trilogy of books published by Berg continues his radical rethinking of design. Becoming Human by Design presents a provocative reading of human 'evolution' centred on ontological design, where the relation between the formation of the world of human fabrication and the making of mankind is seen as indivisible.
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