Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262019841 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dan said This book gives incredible insight into a design and studio. This book gives incredible insight into a design and studio practice. It encourages a revitalizing of your mindset of design.. "inspiring" according to Amazon Customer. Design as a social instrument of change - Imagining possible futures - that is my interest and this book does a nice job of highlighting those that are doing that kind of work and the thinking behind it.. Fresh paint Shmeets Think of Philip K. Dick's snarky talking fridge door and then add 40 years. Old Sci-fi ideas given a fresh coat of paint and moved from a maligned literary subgenre to the entitled world of critcal design.
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. Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of
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. 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. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be -- to imagine possible futures. 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. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more -- about everything -- reality will become more malleable. 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. The ide
It's the polar opposite of the carefree, slobbering virality of Youtube, Tumblr, and this weblog, and there's something heart-lifting in its living demonstration of what can be achieved today. (Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO)Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby have set out to change the landscape of contemporary design. Their function is to make a product better or more beautiful, or to make a process more efficient. Speculative Everything, their provocative manifesto, is an intriguing contribution to the search for a new direction for design. The result is a series of scenarios that help to illuminate moral, ethical, political and aesthetic problems. But what if, instead of solving problems, they posed them? That is the premise behi