Comments on: Post-Optimal Design https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2008/04/07/post-optimal-objects/ Clarify Today, Design Tomorrow Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:02:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 By: Julian https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2008/04/07/post-optimal-objects/#comment-240 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:23:00 +0000 http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/?p=2095#comment-240 I’m with you Molly — “Creative Consumer Electronics”, or maybe “Critical Consumer Electronics” (or both) to resonate with play but also Dunne & Raby’s practices of critical design.

]]> By: molly https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2008/04/07/post-optimal-objects/#comment-239 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:06:27 +0000 http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/?p=2095#comment-239 Having just seen the Design of the Elastic Mind show for the second time (and having worked with Fiona Raby as a critic for a course I taught — and advising projects that operated in this vein), I’m struck by the possibilities of precisely using the language of the commercial and consumerist in order to make a point about these objects. A few years ago, Tony Dunne mentioned to me that people get so angry at the co-opting of product design language for critical purposes. I wonder if this is because of its hyperreality?

(Also, your post reminds me of Accordion Hero, done by your friends have done (I saw it via Dana Gordon’s Flickr stream last year and figure it must have come from her and/or Jean-Baptiste)).

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