Anthony Dunne

Fiona Raby

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. Inhalt: Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy and consumable. In this book the concept is proposed, that design is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. Design means 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. The "what-if" questions that are intended to open debate and discussions about the kind of future people want (and do not want).

Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

Speculative Everything

Robin

Critical design can often be dark or deal with dark themes. (...) Complex emotions are usally ignored in design; nearly every other culture accepts that people are complicated, contradictory, and even neurotic, but not design.

By presenting people with fictional products, services, and systems from alternative futures people can engage critically with them as citizen-consumers.

(...) it can pull new technological developments into imaginary but believable every day situations so that we can explore possible consequences before they happen.

Using design to ask questions rather than providing answers or solving problems.

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