- Published: 7 May 2024
- ISBN: 9780262548687
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $69.99
Speculative Everything
Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
- Published: 7 May 2024
- ISBN: 9780262548687
- Imprint: MIT Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $69.99
"Designers are usually seen as problem solvers. Their function is to make a product better or more beautiful, or to make a process more efficient. But what if, instead of solving problems, they posed them? That is the premise behind Speculative Everything, the first book to look in detail at the kinds of results such an approach might throw up.... Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, professors at London's Royal College of Art, have been the most articulate proponents of the idea of “critical design”. Their concern is not to design products to be sent out into a slightly uncertain future but rather to imagine how that future might be entirely different. The result is a series of scenarios that help to illuminate moral, ethical, political and aesthetic problems."
--Financial Times