Design as Politics

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781847885678
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Description:
Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with the issue of sustainability. Current ‘solutions’ to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems. Further, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future.

Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate change is only one part, demands original and radical thinking. Rather than reverting to failed political ideologies, the book proposes a post-democratic politics. In this, Design occupies a major role, not as it is but as it could be if transformed into a powerful agent of change, a force to create and extend freedom. The book does no less than position Design as a vital form of political action.

‘To say that this book is ‘timely’ is an understatement. Fry offers us one of the most prescient theses for the design of a different possible future – a time and a politics ‘to-come’ – that we have. We all ignore the messages of this book at our own peril.’ Duncan Fairfax, Goldsmiths, University of London