Tony Fry
Tony Fry is a designer, design theorist, and cultural theorist. Fry has taught design and cultural theory in Britain, the United States, Hong Kong and Australia and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies in Design from the University of Birmingham. Fry has held positions as Adjunct Professor to the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and as a consultant on sustainable design to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Tony Fry
- Name
- Tony Fry
- Born
- 1944
- Nationality
- Australia
- Occupation
- designer
- Education
- University of Birmingham
- Languages
- English
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He is former Professor and Convenor, Master of Design Futures Program, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art. Fry currently holds visiting an adjunct position at the University of Tasmania, and is visiting professor University of Ibagué (Colombia). He was a contributing editor of Design Philosophy Papers journal and principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World.
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• Region — British/Australian • Era — Contemporary design theory • Name — Tony Fry • Main Interests — Design Ontology Sustainability Technology • Notable Ideas — Sustainment, Defuturing, Futuring, Redirective Practice, The Age of Unsettlement, The Urmadic University
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