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Informationen zum Autor Tony Fry is Principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia. He is an award-winning designer, cultural theorist, educator and author. He has held academic positions in Australia and internationally and is the author of sixteen books, including Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2009); Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2011), Becoming Human By Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Remaking Cities (Bloomsbury, 2017), Defuturing (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Writing Design Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021).Tony Fry's Becoming Human by Design is the last part in his ground-breaking trilogy of books that re-examine the relation between design and humanity. It argues that traditional models of human evolution fail to explain in full how we came to be what we are. Instead, it demonstrates just how vital the role of design has been in shaping human life - and humans themselves - and how recognising its significance in this respect is key to our survival. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction Part One: First Pass End of the StoryStart of a StoryProximity: A Question of Distances Part Two: Emergence Over Origin - A Relational Account Coming into Being via Natural SelectionComing into Being via Un-natural SelectionComing into Being via Design Part Three: The Leap Why Make the LeapThe Passage from 'Here and Now to Then' Part Four: From 'Where We Where' to 'Where We Are' World-in-BeingImagination in a Blink of an Eye On the Subject of the Subject Part Five: Now-ings Living in DarknessPost-Political ProspectsThe Rise of Another OtherLast Words NotesSelective BibliographyIndex...
