Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby. "Speculative Everything" Book Presentation

Speculative design allows us to see the public status quo from an unexpected side, and offers projects of radical change. A solar kitchen restaurant, a cloud-seeding truck, and a phantom-limb sensation recorder: speculative designers generate new perspectives and identify more desirable modes of existence.

Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more — about everything — reality will become more malleable. In support of their argument, they cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography.

Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are professors of design and emerging technology and fellows of the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School in New York. They were co-founders of the CDR Research Studio, where they both worked as senior research fellows. Their work has been exhibited at MoMA, NYC, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and the Design Museum in London, and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other museums, as well as several private collections.