Dear Colleagues,
I'd like to draw your attention to Tony Fry’s just released book from Berg publishers - the last in his trilogy of radical rethinkings of design. Certainly not a book about human-centred design as bounded by professional practice! 'Becoming Human by Design' presents a revised reading of human 'evolution'. It makes a case for ontological design as an evolutionary agency, positing the relation between the formation of the world of human fabrication and the making of mankind itself as indivisible. It is also a provocation to rethink the fate of Homo sapiens, recognising that all species are finite and that the fate of humankind turns on a fundamental Darwinian principle - adapt or die. Probably Fry's most controversial book to date, certainly the most far-reaching.
Available now in UK/Europe. USA and Australia from January 1.
best wishes,
Anne-Marie Willis
Editor, Design Philosophy Papers
http://desphilosophy.com/dpp/home.html
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