{"id":4022,"date":"2009-10-30T20:51:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T03:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:01:30","slug":"design-fiction-in-the-science-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2009\/10\/30\/design-fiction-in-the-science-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Fiction in the Science Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

From Bruce’s Beyond the Beyond: Design Fiction in the Science Gallery<\/a>: “<\/p>\n

*Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby carry on for over an hour about their practice of \u2018critical design.\u2019 What a class act these two are: like Robert Louis Stephenson at the monster-movie festival.<\/p>\n

*If you\u2019re coming in late to the concept of \u2018design fiction,\u2019 here\u2019s the takeaway: Dunne and Raby mock-up some of the most provocative, edgy, unsettling gizmos in the world. They do this by modelling social relationships, emotional interactions and the political implications of objects and services, rather than the objects and services per se. So they do indeed create \u2018fictions,\u2019 in that Dunne and Raby designs are poetic, objective-correlative expressions of unstable social situations. These objects are \u2018fictions\u2019 about how we live \u2014 they perform much like Anthony Trollope\u2019s 1875 social satire novel \u2018The Way We Live Now\u2019 once performed.<\/p>\n

*Somewhere over the cultural horizon, there might be a modern paranormal-romance flick where all the set design and props are done by Dunne and Raby. That film would be a very Casablanca of the contemporary crisis.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Way_We_Live_Now<\/p>\n

(\u2019Only Paul seems to know or care whether the railroad actually exists.\u2019 Trollope\u2019s railroad in THE WAY WE LIVE NOW is a steampunk design-fiction.)<\/p>\n

“<\/p>\n

(Via Beyond The Beyond<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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