Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming
A design approach that can be used as a tool to create not only products, but also ideas.
In Speculative Everything shows how design can be used as a means to explore possible futures. It’s not just about creating user-friendly or attractive technology, but about asking 'what if' questions that stimulate discussions about desirable and undesirable future scenarios. This concept goes beyond traditional predictions and trend analyses.
Speculative Everything provides an overview of new cultural insights and methods in design, bringing together examples from art, architecture, film, and photography with political theory and futurism. Innovations such as a solar kitchen restaurant and a menstruation machine illustrate how design can have broad impact, with ideas contributing to more flexible and desirable futures.
Product specifications
- Author: Anthony Dunne
- Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Publication date: 2024-04-02
- Number of pages: 240
- ISBN: 9780262548687
- Theme: Design, Industrial and Commercial Design, Illustration
- BISAC: DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate
About the author
Anthony Dunne is a professor and head of the Design Interactions Programme at the Royal College of Art, and author of Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design (MIT Press). Fiona Raby is a professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and a lecturer in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art.