{"title":"Tony Fry","description":"\u003cp\u003eTony Fry’s works invite readers into a compelling dialogue at the intersection of \u003cem\u003earts, culture,\u003c\/em\u003e and speculative futures. His books explore the consequences of ongoing social and environmental shifts, challenging traditional perspectives through critical analysis and rich narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles like \u003cem\u003eContrapractice\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDisappearing Cities\u003c\/em\u003e, Fry engages with themes of transformation and sustainability, offering thought-provoking insights that resonate within both the \u003cstrong\u003esci-fi\u003c\/strong\u003e and cultural discourse. 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Defuturing as our condition forces the generation of a new philosophy of design.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith these thoughts, this book presents a radically new understanding of the history, context, and futures of designing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1999, now reissued with a new preface by the author, \u003cem\u003eDefuturing: A New Design Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e is a prescient and powerful account of what it means to comprehend that we live in a world that is taking away futures for ourselves and non-human others. Arguing that designing is doubly implicated in this process, first in its roles in helping to create the unsustainable, but second, re-thought through the lens of defuturing, as a mode of acting in the world that can help contest the negation of the world, \u003cem\u003eDefuturing\u003c\/em\u003e transforms our comprehension of designing and of how futures can be constituted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorking not through abstract theorizing but through the analysis of concrete examples, the book uses historical material on design to expose the archaeology of defuturing. Shattering the illusion that the future simply “is”, \u003cem\u003eDefuturing\u003c\/em\u003e confronts designing with the challenge of remaking while offering the elements of a new practical reasoning of design acting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430547931372,"sku":"9781350089532","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350089532.jpg?v=1774559057"},{"product_id":"disappearing-cities-by-tony-fry-9781839995989","title":"Disappearing Cities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisappearing Cities\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of over fifty short stories of invented cities, set in the not too distant future, destroyed by varied climate change impacts and linked natural disasters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories bring into question the relation between the natural and unnatural forces of change and expose responses to, and lessons learnt from, different disaster crises situations. They also focus on how means to adapt are sought. The projected fictions are created from projected current climate facts, trends, and the author's experience of population displacement, relocation, and design-based climate change responsive action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCentral to the book is the recognition that to be able to respond and adapt to the scale of coming changes in the climate requires going beyond existing practical action and embracing a new way of imagining futures. \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Cities\u003c\/i\u003e aims to stimulate ways of meeting this need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with a Prologue that establishes the contextual frame of empirical foundation out of which the fictions are created. It recognises that we all live in a world in which the conditions that will result in huge numbers of cities disappearing are underway. From the human perspective, the process appears to be very slow, whereas in historico-geological time, it is happening exceptionally quickly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe number of cities lost is going to be huge, yet the recognition that this will occur is not arriving. In part, this is due to a lack of knowledge, but equally, it reflects a lack of imagination. Transposing what is known about climate change by a significant percentage of the societies of many nations to the actual environments in which they live is just not arriving. What appears so solid and established fails to be seen and imagined as a risk and vulnerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom establishing this opening perspective, the first part of the book presents stories of cities already disappearing as a result of the forces of nature changed by anthropogenically created global warming. Part two discusses the impacts of natural disasters being made unnaturally—for example, by the way industrial societies are damaging and changing natural systems, including the climatic. The final part goes to cities destroyed by completely unnatural means, including war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisappearing Cities\u003c\/i\u003e aims to contribute to meeting the need for a better understanding of, and ability to imagine, the risks to which vast numbers of cities are, and will be, exposed to forces of disappearance. To do this, the narratives are a hybrid of fact and fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe work was inspired by Italo Calvino's book \u003ci\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/i\u003e and is intended to be a salient contemporary companion to this text. 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Climate change impacts are increasing, environmental destruction will follow, populations and settlements will be displaced, food security will become critical, geopolitical instability and escalating dangers of conflict will grow. Such an entangled complexity threatens life itself more seriously than at any time since the Ice Age. Against the real threats to life on Earth, what are the world’s political leaders doing? The answers sit between nothing and very little.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo, what is to be done? There is no immediate or simple answer. But what \u003ci\u003eContrapractice\u003c\/i\u003e acknowledges is that nothing changes unless practices change. The intent is for the process to take on a life of its own by the many people who care about securing a viable future. It does not provide template solutions, but the ability to act. Every reader is viewed as a communicator of its message and a change agent of their own practice. 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