Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262019841 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book gives incredible insight into a design and studio Dan This book gives incredible insight into a design and studio practice. It encourages a revitalizing of your mindset of design.. inspiring 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.. Shmeets said Fresh paint. Think of Philip K. Dick's snarky talking fridge door and then add 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.. 0 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.
The result is a series of scenarios that help to illuminate moral, ethical, political and aesthetic problems. (Financial Times)Speculative Everything neatly and quietly dispels the myths, misunderstandings and simplifications surrounding speculative design. Speculative Everything is an important contribution to the field of design and should be read widely. Of course, there will always be people who dismiss Dunne and Raby's work for being too arty, and, well, too speculative to be strictly design but if some of them ever read the book, i'm quite convinced that they will at least agree on the fact that its authors ask some valid questions and more importantly perhaps articulate them in an intelligent, compelling way. Not tomorrow, and not in the imagination -- but really, right here and now. (We Make Money Not Art)In conclusion, something should be said about how refined and handsome this book is, as a designed artifact. (Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO)Antho
Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. 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. 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. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more -- about everything -- reality will become more malleable. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. 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 de
Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Programme at the Royal College of Art. 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. . He is the author of Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience,