Design as Politics - 9781847885678

Revisiting themes he tackled in two previous books, Fry (design, Griffith U., Queensland College of Art) challenges readers to think about design, designing, and politics in a new way, by weaving together five modes of exposition: analysis, critique, design-linked proposals, explorations, and case studies. The central argument of the book is that democracy is unable to deliver sustainment (the post-Enlightenment project beyond 'sustainability'). Fry explains why this is so and explores the implications of this state of affairs. He claims that any future worth having requires a political transformation of existing social and economic life, and that this necessary change cannot arrive by the existing political discourse, but instead requires another kind of politics united with a dynamic transformative agency (exposited as design remade). The book is distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)