Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

by Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262019841
• ISBN13: 9780262019842
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher