{"product_id":"speculative-everything-with-a-new-preface-by-the-authors-design-fiction-and-social-dreaming-paperback","title":"Speculative Everything, with a New Preface by the Authors: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Dunne\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFiona Raby\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToday designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, 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). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeculative Everything\u003c\/i\u003e 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; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more--about everything--reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Dunne is Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Programme at the Royal College of Art. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFiona Raby is Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.9 x 6.93 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44834996256870,"sku":"9780262548687","price":45.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/9Ldq1CGQV79780262548687.webp?v=1772254510","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/speculative-everything-with-a-new-preface-by-the-authors-design-fiction-and-social-dreaming-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}