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Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are designers and educators known for their pioneering work in speculative and critical design.
Known for: Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
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Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
This book explores the concept of speculative design, a practice that uses design as a medium to imagine alternative futures and challenge the status quo. Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby present a framework for thinking about design beyond commercial and functional constraints, encouraging designers to engage with social, political, and ethical questions through imaginative and critical projects.
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The Historical Shift: From Industrial Function to Critical Discourse
Design as a discipline has always been entwined with the machinery of production. The industrial revolution established design as the visual and functional language of mass manufacture, a practice devoted to improving lives through efficiency and aesthetics. But as the decades unfolded, this alignme...
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Defining Speculative Design and Design Fiction
Our term *speculative design* embraces critical design but extends it further. Where critical design engages with current issues, speculative design stands at the threshold of the possible—it uses design to ask questions about futures that do not yet exist. It is not predictive, not sciencefictional...
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Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are designers and educators known for their pioneering work in speculative and critical design.
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