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PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262019841
ISBN-139780262019842
eBay Product ID (ePID)166672785
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Book TitleSpeculative Everything : Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicIndustrial, Digital, General, Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Art, Computers
AuthorFiona Raby, Anthony Dunne
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight27.7 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width7.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2013-009801
ReviewsIn conclusion, something should be said about how refined and handsome this book is, as a designed artifact. Though it's a work for the academy and not for the coffee-table, it deliberately upholds a high standard. All the illustrations, and there are many, are in crisp resolution, while starkly obvious pains have been taken to see that due credit was given to every creative person involved in every image. It's the polar opposite of the carefree, slobbering virality of Youtube, Tumblr, and this weblog, and there's something heart-lifting in its living demonstration of what can be achieved today. Not tomorrow, and not in the imagination -- but really, right here and now., In conclusion, something should be said about how refined and handsome this book is,as a designed artifact. Though it's a work for the academy and not for the coffee-table, itdeliberately upholds a high standard. All the illustrations, and there are many, are in crispresolution, while starkly obvious pains have been taken to see that due credit was given to everycreative person involved in every image. It's the polar opposite of the carefree, slobberingvirality of Youtube, Tumblr, and this weblog, and there's something heart-lifting in its livingdemonstration of what can be achieved today. Not tomorrow, and not in the imagination -- but really,right here and now., Designers are usually seen as problem solvers. Their function is to make a productbetter or more beautiful, or to make a process more efficient. But what if, instead of solvingproblems, they posed them? That is the premise behind Speculative Everything, the first book to lookin 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 slightlyuncertain future but rather to imagine how that future might be entirely different. The result is aseries of scenarios that help to illuminate moral, ethical, political and aestheticproblems., 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., Speculative Everything neatly and quietly dispels the myths,misunderstandings and simplifications surrounding speculative design. Of course, there will alwaysbe people who dismiss Dunne and Raby's work for being too arty, and, well, too speculative to bestrictly design but if some of them ever read the book, i'm quite convinced that they will at leastagree on the fact that its authors ask some valid questions and more importantly perhaps articulatethem in an intelligent, compelling way., Speculative Everything neatly and quietly dispels the myths, misunderstandings and simplifications surrounding speculative design. Of course, there will always be people who dismiss Dunne and Raby's work for being too arty, and, well, too speculative to be strictly design but if some of them ever read the book, i'm quite convinced that they will at least agree on the fact that its authors ask some valid questions and more importantly perhaps articulate them in an intelligent, compelling way., Designers are usually seen as problem solvers. Their function is to make a productbetter or more beautiful, or to make a process more efficient. But what if, instead of solvingproblems, they posed them? That is the premise behind Speculative Everything , thefirst book to look in detail at the kinds of results such an approach might throw up.... AnthonyDunne and Fiona Raby, professors at London's Royal College of Art, have been the most articulateproponents of the idea of "critical design". Their concern is not to design products to besent out into a slightly uncertain future but rather to imagine how that future might be entirelydifferent. The result is a series of scenarios that help to illuminate moral, ethical, political andaesthetic problems., In conclusion, something should be said about how refined and handsome this book is, as a designed artifact. Though it's a work for the academy and not for the coffee-table, it deliberately upholds a high standard. All the illustrations, and there are many, are in crisp resolution, while starkly obvious pains have been taken to see that due credit was given to every creative person involved in every image. It's the polar opposite of the carefree, slobbering virality of Youtube, Tumblr, and this weblog, and there's something heart-lifting in its living demonstration of what can be achieved today. Not tomorrow, and not in the imagination--but really, right here and now.
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal745.4
SynopsisHow to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything , 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). Speculative Everything 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.
LC Classification NumberNK1505.D865 2013
