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Speculative Everything
Anthony Dunne
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Description for Speculative Everything
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 143 color illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 176 x 20. Weight in Grams: 752.
How 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 ... Read more
How 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
775g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262019842
SKU
V9780262019842
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99-40
About Anthony Dunne
Anthony Dunne is Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Programme at the Royal College of Art. He is the author of Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design (MIT Press). Fiona Raby is Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art.
Reviews for Speculative Everything
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.... ... Read more