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 possible futures.

Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In

List of contents

CONTENTS
Preface to the Paperback Edition vii
Preface x
Acknowledgments xii
1 Beyond Radical Design? 1
2 A Map of Unreality 11
3 Design as Critique 33
4 Consuming Monsters: Big, Perfect, Infectious 47
5 A Methodological Playground: Fictional Worlds and Thought Experiments 69
6 Physical Fictions: Invitations to Make-Believe 89
7 Aesthetics of Unreality 101
8 Between Reality and the Impossible 139
9 Speculative Everything 159
Notes 190
Bibliography 204
Index 217

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Dunne, Dunne Anthony, Fiona Raby, Raby Fiona
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2024
• EAN: 9780262548687
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54868-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; DESIGN / History & Criticism, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, History of Art, Industrial / commercial art & design, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, history of design, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration