Please join Adj Prof Tony Fry (UTAS) and Dr Naomi Hay (SOA&D, ANU) for the upcoming workshop “Strategic Design in Times of Unsettlement: Questions of Policy”, hosted by ANU’s School of Art and Design and Research School of Humanities and the Arts.

The workshop will open by defining the contemporary condition of unsettlement, and how the concept of strategic design is being understood as a transdisciplinary practice. The example of climate change impacts upon a community at risk over time will be presented as the basis of a strategic design scenario. Specific issues the scenario will address include: understanding and responding to risk in time; the strategic significance of community relocation; site selection and the new urban environment; community, dialogue, planning, design, and policy; the logistics of what moves and how; the management of what is left behind; and the projection of futures. Workshop participants will be invited to place themselves in the picture that will be presented.

Tony Fry,  a 2024 RSHA Visitor,  is an award-winning designer, cultural theorist, educator and author. He is Adjunct Professor, Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, Visiting Professor, University of Ibaguè (Colombia), and the principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania. His research interests include climate futures, post-sustainability, ontological design, cosmotechnics, decoloniality, politics and conflict. Tony has published twenty books. He is currently working on design projects in Latin American and two upcoming books: Contrapractice with Dulmini Perera, Bauhaus University, Weimer, and  Political Breakout, his second book on a New Political Imagination. 

Workshop participants will be invited to put themselves in the picture that will be created.