TY - BOOK AU - Dunne, Anthony AU - ; Raby, Fiona. AU - Anthony Dunne. TI - Speculative everything : : design, fiction, and social dreaming SN - 9780262019842 U1 - 745.4 DUN PY - 2013/// CY - , Massachusetts PB - : The MIT Press, Cambridge KW - Design Philosophy KW - ART Digital KW - ART Folk & Outsider Art KW - CRAFTS & HOBBIES Folkcrafts N1 - Beyond radical design? A map of unreality Design as critique Consuming monsters : big, perfect, infectious A methodological playground : fictional worlds and thought experiments Physical fictions : invitations to make-believe Aesthetics of unreality Between reality and the impossible Speculative everything N2 - 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)." ER -