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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.
Tony Fry's ""Political Breakout"" strikes like a hammer; it shatters the political paradigms, technocratic illusions, and the cult of ongoing progress, the brittle idols of our time. This book speaks to those willing to stare into the abyss of current crises, confront existential challenges, and find the strength to create anew. Fry calls for rejecting the slavish comforts yet destructive habitus of political thought and action that perpetuates the negation of humanity's futures. Instead, he advocates for creating a pragmatic vision-a geometry of change-to address the compound of interconnected crises that shape our epoch. ""Political Breakout"" dares readers to embrace the dangerous yet exhilarating task of re-imagining the world so there can be a future world. At its core, Fry's work is a 'Dionysian' affirmation of life amidst profound crises, embodying an act of will that seeks to overcome, rather than simply endure, our current precarious conditions of being. Prof. Philippe d'Anjou School of Architecture Florida Atlantic University
