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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 14 May 2026
- ISBN 9781350448506
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language 700
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Short description:
Building on Tony Fry's foundational work on 'defuturing', a deconstructive method to understand fundamental flaws in the designed world around us, this book addresses current global unsustainable practices.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Opening Dialogue, Tony Fry and Dulmini Perera
Introduction: Defuturing, Practice, Contrapractice, Tony Fry
1. Defuturing Now, Tony Fry
2. On Practice, Tony Fry
3. Contrapractice in the End Times, Tony Fry
4. Reflections and Projections, Tony Fry
Closing Conversation, Tony Fry and Dulmini Perera
Appendices, Tony Fry
Appendix 1. On an elaboration on Bourdieu's understanding of habitus
Appendix 2. Michel de Certeau and Practices of Everyday Life
Appendix 3. Peter Sloterdijk's Theory of Practice
Appendix 4. Technology revealed and cybernetics stripped bare
Appendix 5. Degrowth/Regrowth
Glossary
References
Index
