‘A Total
Re-writing of the Past, Present and Future of Design’ Tony Fry, 2001
A fundamental rethinking
of design in a paper delivered in the Public Lecture Program of the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago in February 2001. Click here
to view paper
‘Sight Unseen’
Anne-Marie Willis, 2000
Argues that the escalation of
visual aesthetics producing a blindness that defutures. Paper delivered at Making & Unmaking, a design
history conference at University of
Portsmouth, UK,
Sept 2000 Click here to view paper
‘Know
Your Enemy: Defining the Problem of Unsustainability’ Tony Fry, 2000
This paper claims that
the causes of unsustainability need to be better understood and this can
begin with identifying the ‘enemies of sustainability’ which are
not necessarily the usual targets — corporations and industry —
but rather human-centredness itself. While this is a condition that cannot be
escaped, we can take responsibility for it by design. Paper delivered
at Shaping the Sustainable Millennium, Queensland University of
Technology, July 2000.
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‘Ontological
Designing’ Anne-Marie Willis, 1999
A research paper
explaining and exploring ‘ontological designing’, an idea that prompts
radically different thinking about design practice and designed things. It
also implies new ways of understanding how we, as modern subjects have come
to be who/what we are in the modern world. Paper presented at Design
Cultures, Conference of the European
Academy of Design, Sheffield Hallam
University, May 1999.
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