Design Lecture on "Design and the Other Economy" by Tony Fry

The current global economy is based on the proposition of a necessity of continued economic growth. Yet we all live as finite beings on a planet of finite resources, albeit that we human beings are very inventive. Nonetheless, the implication of believing in economic perpetual motion is that the future of our species, and others, is being sacrificed for the increasingly hyper-consumerist present. There has to be another way, and this presentation will examine an example of such thinking together with the role design can play in its advancement.

* This lecture is open to academic staff, PhDs, researchers and Masters students in SD.

About Tony Fry

Tony Fry is a designer, design and cultural theorist, educator and author. He is principal of the newly created The Studio at the Edge of the World, Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, and a contributing editor of the e-journal Design Philosophy Papers. He was Professor, Design Futures, Griffith University (2007-14), has held positions at several universities and visiting professorships and fellowships at universities in Australia, Asia, Europe and in North and South America. As a consultant Tony Fry has worked the areas of design, sustainability and futures for the corporate sector and government. He is the author of twelve books, most recently: City Future in the Age of a Changing Climate was published in late 2014; Design and the Question of History, jointly authored with Clive Dilnot and Susan Steward: and, Steel: A Design, Cultural and Ecological History, jointly authored with Anne-Marie Willis both published in early 2015. Currently he is working on a commissioned book on Remaking Cities, based on the concept of ‘Metrofitting’.