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
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.
- 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.
