Speculative everything: design, fiction, and social dreaming

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 impossib...

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Main Authors: Dunne, Anthony 1964- (Author), Raby, Fiona 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England The MIT Press [2013]
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary: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)
Item Description:Enthält bibliographische Referenzen und einen Index
Physical Description:ix, 224 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780262019842

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