Contrapractice: Action Against Defuturing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350448490)

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Contrapractice: Action Against Defuturing

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Contrapractice: Action Against Defuturing

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Format: Paperback
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Building on his foundational work on 'defuturing, ' a deconstructive method that exposes historically the unsustainability of a great deal of design practice and its products, Tony Fry now offers a powerful response.

There is no shortage of analysis of the current state of the world. 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.

So, what is to be done? There is no immediate or simple answer. But what Contrapractice 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. Fry's dialogue in the book with Dulmini Perera is a prompt for the book to be an object of discussion.

Author: Tony Fry
ISBN-10: 1350448494
ISBN-13: 9781350448490
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2026
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.01w x 0.51d
By Tony Fry
By Tony Fry
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Tony Fry is Principal of the Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, and the former Director of the EcoDesign Foundation in Sydney, Australia. A writer, researcher, educator and award-winning designer, he is author of 20 books including Design as Politics, Becoming Human By Design, Defuturing, Writing Design Fiction and Contrapractice.

Dulmini Perera is Lecturer and Researcher at Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany. She works at the intersection of critical theory, design theory and systems/cybernetics research, and is the recipient of the Heinz von Foerster award (2021). She has written and edited a number of publications including the co-edited book The Space of Technicity (forthcoming, 2023) and the co-edited Footprint journal volume Engaging Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism (forthcoming, 2024). She is a member of award-winning design and research teams in Sri Lanka and internationally.

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