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Can I read Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming on EtoBox?
Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming about?
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;
Who reads Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming?
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- Author
- Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262019842
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Computer Science, Crafts & Hobbies
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (197 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14