A New Political Imagination

The book presents the case for the making of a new political imagination by offering a critique of existing political institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and crises of specific locales and the world at large.

Tony Fry has led/worked on projects in Australia, the Americas, Asia, and Europe and has won a number of national and international design awards in the area of urban design. He has held visiting academic positions in the Americas and in Asia. As a Professor of Design at Griffith University, Brisbane (2008-2014), he led an AusAID-funded post-conflict material culture recovery research project in Timor-Leste (2008-2012). Since 2015, Tony has also worked on projects in Colombia. He has curated numerous exhibitions and produced major multi-media events. As an author of over twenty books, his most recent are: 'Unstaging War, Confronting Conflict and Peace' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2019), 'Defuturing, A New Design Philosophy' (reprint of 1999 book - Bloomsbury, 2020), 'A New Political Imagination: Making the Case with Madina Tlostanova' (Routledge, 2021), 'Writing Design Fiction: Relocation a City in Crisis' (Bloomsbury), 2021. He has also published two novels.

Introduction: The Political (De)formation of the Now Chapter 1. Openings: Configuring the Critical and Criticality Chapter 2. A Lexicon of Analytics Chapter 3. Narratives of Gathering(s) of the Political Chapter 4. Imagination Otherwise Chapter 5. Towards a Research Agenda and Researching Research