Tony Fry established the Design Futures Program at Griffith University, Brisbane, where he continues to supervise a number of doctoral students. He also is working on a number of interdisciplinary projects at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to this Tony taught at Sydney University and was director of the EcoDesign Foundation Sydney. Tony is an award-winning designer in sustainable urban design. He has worked as a consultant on design, culture and sustainability project for government, the corporate sector and NGOs, and on international design projects in Asia, the USA, Latin America and Europe. Tony recently led a three-year research and development project, supported by Griffith University and the Australian Government, to create a college of indigenous creative industries in Timor-Leste. Currently Tony has ongoing on projects in Columbia and Egypt.

Tony Fry has written extensively on design, history and theory. He is the author of twelve books. His latest, City Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate, is about to be published by Routledge. He has also jointed authored Design and the Question of History with Clive Dilnot and Susan C. Steward, Steel: A Design, Cultural and Ecological History with Anne-Marie Willis – both to be published Bloomsbury, December 2014. He also contributed to the recently published Design in the Borderlands edited by himself and Eleni Kalantidou (Routledge 2014). At the moment Tony is writing commissioned essays on ‘Design and the Geopolitics of Asia’; reflections on his work on ‘Design as Politics’ as well as working on a book on the concept of 'Metrofitting’.