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DESIGN & INNOVATION
Read Tony Fry’s submission to the Review of the National
Innovation System: The
Role of Design as a Contributor to Innovation – pdf file
NEW COURSE: MASTER OF DESIGN
FUTURES
Tony Fry has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor to Griffith University, Queensland College of Art to run the new
Design Futures Masters Program.
This
groundbreaking course, to be introduced in July 2008, is about the creation
of new design practices able to respond to the unfolding challenges of the
twenty-first century, not least climate change and the imperative of creating
a sustainable economy and culture. Tony Fry says that the course is directed
at “people wishing to be pathfinders” and that the course
aims “… to go beyond the
likes of ‘green design’, ‘ecodesign’ and
‘sustainable design’ to create a far broader and more powerful
strategic practice that places design in a more significant position to lead
positive change”. The Master of Design Futures is open to graduates
from design disciplines and a wide range of other professions. Further
information: www.griffith.edu.au/qca/design/programs/designfutures
NEW BOOK: DESIGN FUTURING
Berg is publishing Tony Fry’s latest book, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice in
November 2008. The book makes the case for a new kind of leadership which
recognises design’s importance in overcoming a world made
unsustainable. It exposes the limitations of existing ‘sustainable
design’ and systematically presents ideas and methods of ethical
change. Design Futuring begins by
arguing that design be subordinated to ‘redirective practice’ and
then explores forms of strategic thinking to deliver design’s
transformation. Besides offering critical analysis and challenging ideas Design Futuring presents industrial
design and architectural case studies, including: the design consequences of
the automobile; redesigning the Olympic Games; design, shelter and
homelessness; and the transformation of an architectural practice.
BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD – INTERNATIONAL
DESIGN COMPETITION
Team D/E/S with Gall & Medek Architects
gained second place in the RIBA-USA California Chapter’s international
competition ‘ Building a Sustainable World – Life in the
Balance’. Tony Fry and Jim Gall
presented to judges at a symposium at the Architecture and Design Museum,
Los Angeles
in June 2007. Our proposal, titled ‘Boonah 2’ is about designing
a process for an existing community to develop towards sustainment in the
face of climate change. Twelve teams from seven different countries made it
to the finals. A US
architectural publisher will be producing a book of the winning entries. More
information at http://www.riba-usa.org
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY POLITICS
Spun off from online journal Design Philosophy Papers (see below), and
working in collaboration with dedicated people in Social Informatics at
University of Indiana, Team D/E/S,
in mid 2007, launched a polemical online journal - www.designphilosophypolitics.com
REDIRECTIVE PRACTICE
Increasingly,
Team D/E/S is working with a
diversity of designers, visual artists and others who are seeking to turn
their professional practices toward the development of sustainment. We are
developing the idea of ‘redirectrive practice’ as a new kind of
meta-designing to overarch and transform existing practices. Read about the
ideas behind it in this article from Design Philosophy Papers.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY PAPERS
Team D/E/S Publications launched
this refereed online journal in 2003, which is growing in readership,
influence and the quality of contributions. Design Philosophy Papers aims to involve people from different
disciplines in thinking about and developing understandings of design as a
world-shaping force. Contributors and editors are from many parts of the
world and include distinguished writers such as philosopher of technology, Albert Borgmann; Heideggerian philosopher William
McNeill; architectural theorist, Karsten Harries;
sustainable designer Ezio Manzini; and geographer/historian/urban theorist,
Augustin Berque. The latest issue of the journal is available free at www.desphilosophy.com
TREELINES
TreeLines is Team D/E/S’s
education pavilion at Ravensbourne (south east Queensland, near Toowoomba). A sustainably
designed, simple timber building set amongst remnant rainforest and hardwood
plantation provides a unique context for practical learning. Events and
activities are provided for different audiences from school and university
students through to the local community plus a diversity of professionals. We
have run workshops on topics ranging from forest ecology, farm forestry,
timber design and specification through to organic farming and even
‘writing the landscape’. For more information contact amwillis@teamdes.com.au
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