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Speculative Everything : Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262318501
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 745.4
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Beyond Radical Design? -- 2. A Map of Unreality -- 3. Design as Critique -- 4. Consuming Monsters: Big, Perfect, Infectious -- 5. A Methodological Playground: Fictional Worlds and Thought Experiments -- 6. Physical Fictions: Invitations to Make-Believe -- 7. Aesthetics of Unreality -- 8. Between Reality and the Impossible -- 9. Speculative Everything -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Beyond Radical Design? -- 2. A Map of Unreality -- 3. Design as Critique -- 4. Consuming Monsters: Big, Perfect, Infectious -- 5. A Methodological Playground: Fictional Worlds and Thought Experiments -- 6. Physical Fictions: Invitations to Make-Believe -- 7. Aesthetics of Unreality -- 8. Between Reality and the Impossible -- 9. Speculative Everything -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.

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