Speculative everything : design, fiction, and social dreaming
Dunne, Anthony2013
Book
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).
Main title:
Speculative everything : design, fiction, and social dreaming / Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby.
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : The MIT Press, [2013]Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : The MIT Press, [2013]copyright2013
Collation:
ix, 224 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Formerly CIP. UkIncludes bibliographical references (pages 204-216) and index.
Shelving notes:
32646 0000264407 1 19-06-2014 99 nyctro 19-06-2014 7
Contents:
Beyond radical design? -- A map of unreality -- Design as critique -- Consuming monsters: big, perfect, infectious -- A methodological playground: fictional worlds and thought experiments -- Physical fictions: invitations to make believe -- Aesthetics of unreality -- Between reality and the impossible -- Speculative everything.
ISBN:
0262019841 (hardback)9780262019842 (hardback)
Dewey class:
745.4
LC class:
NK1505
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
192545
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Library | -Art and Culture | ARTS 745.4 DUNN | Available |