Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Dunne, Anthony
Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Dunne, Anthony

Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about...
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Author: Anthony Dunne
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Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Dunne, Anthony

Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

$79.15
Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Dunne, Anthony

Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

$79.15
Author: Anthony Dunne
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be--to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose "what if" questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want).

Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more--about everything--reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.

Author: Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.93w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780262548687
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Programme at the Royal College of Art. He is the author of Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design (MIT Press).

Fiona Raby is Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art.
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