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Design Futuring
Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice
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This book is invaluable for designers, design educators, and students, particularly those interested in sustainability and ethical practice. It also extends its relevance to professionals and students in Architecture, Creative Arts, Business, and Management seeking insight into sustainable design's future role.
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See moreDesign Futuring provides the authoritative discussion of sustainable design, presenting essential arguments to provide insight into the ethical, political and social concerns that will shape the design of the 21st Century.
Design Futuring provides the authoritative discussion of sustainable design, presenting essential arguments to provide insight into the ethical, political and social concerns that will shape the design of the 21st Century.
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Sustainability is now a buzzword both among professionals and scholars. However, though climate change and resource depletion are now widely recognised by business as major challenges, and while new practices like 'green design' have emerged, efforts towards change remain weak and fragmented.
Exposing these limitations, Design Futuring systematically presents ideas and methods for Design as an expanded ethical and professional practice. Design Futuring argues that responding to ethical, political, social and ecological concerns now requires a new type of practice that recognises design's importance in overcoming a world made unsustainable.
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—a pathfinding text for the new era—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.
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Praised for its broad reach and accessible style, Design Futuring is recognised as a pathfinding and original work that introduces key concepts like 'redirective practice'. Reviewers from academia and design fields commend its practical insights and suggest it is essential reading for designers, educators, and students across diverse design disciplines. The book is described as forceful, convincing, and inspiring with potential as a core teaching text.
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ISBN: 9781350089952
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 May 2018
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustration: 50 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
Audience: Tertiary education
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Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 188.0mm
Weight: 381g
Pages: 288
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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 and A New Design Philosophy: An Introduction to Defuturing, among many other works.
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