Futuring and defuturing, Design Futures, Politics, Tony Fry
Author(s)
Kalantidou, Eleni
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2015
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According to Tony Fry who first coined the term, Defuturing names two things. First, it designates the character and the historical consequence of the nature and the product of design practice, and second, it methodologically designates the way in which design can be interrogated, as it acts in the way just described. The term, a combination of the prefix de- and the noun future turned into verb, describes the reduction of the future, caused by human actions and a certain understanding of the future as something unpredictable and unaffected by past and present conditions. The use of “future” as a verb (futuring) is strongly ...
View more >According to Tony Fry who first coined the term, Defuturing names two things. First, it designates the character and the historical consequence of the nature and the product of design practice, and second, it methodologically designates the way in which design can be interrogated, as it acts in the way just described. The term, a combination of the prefix de- and the noun future turned into verb, describes the reduction of the future, caused by human actions and a certain understanding of the future as something unpredictable and unaffected by past and present conditions. The use of “future” as a verb (futuring) is strongly related to ontological design and its “directorial consequence of the ‘thing-ing’ (the on going effects and environmental impacts) of some ‘thing’ designed” (Fry, 1999, p. 40).
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View more >According to Tony Fry who first coined the term, Defuturing names two things. First, it designates the character and the historical consequence of the nature and the product of design practice, and second, it methodologically designates the way in which design can be interrogated, as it acts in the way just described. The term, a combination of the prefix de- and the noun future turned into verb, describes the reduction of the future, caused by human actions and a certain understanding of the future as something unpredictable and unaffected by past and present conditions. The use of “future” as a verb (futuring) is strongly related to ontological design and its “directorial consequence of the ‘thing-ing’ (the on going effects and environmental impacts) of some ‘thing’ designed” (Fry, 1999, p. 40).
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Book Title
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design vol 2
Volume
2
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Subject
Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified