PNCA+FIVE Idea Studio: Tony Fry

PNCA+FIVE Idea Studio
“Design Futuring, Culture and the Coming Age of Unsettlement”
Featuring Design Theorist Tony Fry
December 5, 12:30pm
Gerding Theater at the Armory, 128 NW 11th Ave.

“To repeat my oft-stated position, current practices of sustainability based on the notion of sustainable development are largely sustaining the unsustainable.” – Tony Fry, from www.desphilosophy.com

Part of the PNCA+FIVE Idea Studio series, Australian Design Theorist Tony Fry’s lecture, “Design Futuring, Culture and the Coming Age of Unsettlement” will unpack two crucial and linked questions: how can design, as a positive force for change, be “made” to happen? And, how can design become a re-directive practice leading towards sustainment?

Tony Fry is an international leader in the thinking around sustainability and the role of designers as communicators in addressing sweeping global changes. As a design consultant and educator, Tony Fry straddles many areas of design and sustainability in the corporate, government and educational sectors, while also maintaining his life as a farmer and forester in Southeast Queensland. Fry is one of the founding editors of Design Philosophy Papers, an on-line forum for a greater recognition of importance of design as a force in the contemporary world.

Along with serving as director of the sustainability consultancy Team D/E/S/, and as convener of the Masters in Design Futures program at Griffith University, Queensland College of Art (and convener of the Design Futures Program), Tony Fry is an independent scholar and a founding editor of Design Philosophy Papers. He is also a contributing editor to Design Philosophy Politics, an online journal that “sets out to contribute to a far more informed understanding of design and the agency of design in the made world.”

PNCA dedicates this Idea Studio program to Tom and Gun Denhart for their abiding commitment to art, design and a sustainable environment.