#dunne & raby

[princessnijireiki]

anyway our CNS & brains are pretty complex, like we've barely figured out getting people with partial spinal cord damage back driving their own bodies + when we do it's still a roll of the dice & the processes are not all well understood... encephalitis can caused locked-in-ness like with sleeping sicknesses, akinetic mutism, etc where the body itself is not physically incapable of movement & action, but nothing is out there that jumps in and takes over from a driver who's paralyzed or asleep at the wheel... that's not actually a thing, it's fun speculative fiction but not representative of reality— so really, no worries lol

[sterlingarcher23]

Mustard & Ketchup

A more fun than serious post. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw Deadpool & Wolverine. And they seriously made an ad with Heinz. 🤣 (btw in a bts clip, both actresses sing a ketchup and mustard song)

I mean, it's kinda hilarious. Not a direct connecti....oh,wait. The director of the movie is Shawn Levy. (And he put a Stranger Things reference in it, I believe)

Besides....there's the Unbreakable reference in S3 and Max Mayfield reading Wonder Woman to El (MM....WW, like her mirror image in the gym points to El) and the Superman reference of course (El's hair curl and her costume in 5).

Superman:

Unbreakable:

David Dunn's weakness is water btw.

Water. Like in hydrophobia or rabies. Another element I want to talk about for some time now.

Wonder Woman:

[milksockets]

'hide away furniture' from the 'design for fragile personalities in anxious times' project by anthony dunne, fiona raby + michael anastassiades, 2004 in safe: design takes on risk - paola antonelli (2005)

[4leafclovr]

some of my fave fave books i think everyone should read (i know approximately 3 people will see rhis but i just wanted to make it for fun)

☆ braiding sweetgrass - robin wall kimmerer

☆ all about love - bell hooks

☆ the new life - orhan pamuk

☆ watership down - i forfot the author 💀

☆ earthlings - sayaka murata

☆ dark ecology - timothy morton

☆ the beauty of everyday things - soetsu yanagi

☆ after lockdown - bruno latour

☆ the mushroom at the end of the world - anna tsing

☆ speculative everything - anthony dunn and fiona raby

☆ how to do nothing - jenny odell

☆ im like a pdf but a girl girlblogging as a nomadic pedagogy - ester frieder

☆ the Tao te Ching

☆ Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake

☆ Dog Songs - Mary Oliver

☆ Radical Love - Omar Sadif

☆ No God but God - Reza Aslan

☆ Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami

☆ Masks - Fumiko Enchi

☆ Crying in Hmart - Michelle Zauner (japanese breakfast)

☆ The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh

☆ The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon

[peregrination-studies]

23 books in 2023

Thank you for the tag @the---hermit !! I did this challenge last year (available here), and finished all the books on my main list just in the nick of time! I’ve been planning this list out since about July of last year, and I’m really excited to get started on it! I’m also doing a few additional lists (ocean-themed, seasonally themed, etc.) that I might post throughout the year. We shall see!

Environmental science/ecology

1) Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (also recommended by friends) (read Dec 2023)

2) The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals — And Other Forgotten Skills by Tristan Gooley (read December 2023)

3) Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton (read April 2023)

4) The World is Blue by Sylvia Earle (read August 2023)

5) Being Salmon Being Human by Martin Lee Mueller (read May 2023)

Classics/Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

6) Timeline by Michael Crichton (read Jan 2023)

7) The Awakening by Kate Chopin (read Nov 2023)

8) Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (read Nov 2023)

9) A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (read Nov 2023)

10) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (read March 2023)

Reading around the world

11) The Lost City of The Monkey God by Douglas Preston (Honduras) (read Nov 2023)

12) Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts (Antarctica) (read July 2023)

13) Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (South Africa) (read Nov 2023)

14) Beyond the Last Oasis by Ted Edwards (Western Sahara) (read December 2023)

15) The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag and Katharina Rout (translator) (Mongolia) (read Nov 2023)

Architecture and Design

16) The New Carbon Architecture by Bruce King (read Feb 2023)

17) Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova (read Feb 2023)

18) The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate by Ken Tate and Duke Tate (read Nov 2023)

19) Houses that Can Save the World by Courtenay Smith and Sean Topham (read Jan 2023)

20) Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (read Dec 2023)

Books recommended by friends

21) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (Read Jun 2023)

22) O Pioneers! by Willa Cather (Read Dec 2023)

23) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Read Jan 2023)

BONUS

24) Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan

25) Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

26) Defenceless: Gli Ultimi Romantici by Giulia Vola (second year of this on my list bc I think I’ll FINALLY be able to have access to my copy again!! Woohoo!!)

27) Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

28) Backpacked: A Reluctant Trip Across Central America by Catherine Ryan Howard

I really love this challenge, so I want to share it far and wide with the world, BUT I also know not everyone wants to do this, so absolutely no pressure tagging: @contre-qui @daydreaming-optimist @sweetlikehoneysteve @notetaeker @humble-boness @silhouette-of-sarah @willowstea @cheshire-castle-library @deirdredoodle @a-students-lifebuoy @phd-on-fire @amareteur @frithams @carefortheearth @ckmstudies @theskittlemuffin and anyone else who wants to!

[gaydennisreynolds]

Dennis’ Double Life was just Dennis in his Gone Girl era. Amy Dunne is his icon and Mac should be thankful Dennis didn’t just frame him for his murder.

that post that's like. Nick Dunne you married an apex predator and made her move to Missouri what did you expect. Mac McDonald you fell in love with a feral wet kitten that you adopted under the high school bleachers that the vet diagnosed with having more emotional attachment issues than anyone on the planet, and then got upset when he bit you, gave you rabies, & ran away after you were too nice to him. WHAT did you expect.

[theartistisreading]

We're welcoming our new Dodd faculty members by setting up book displays with readings curated BY our new faculty :D

First up is a new addition to our awesome Sculpture faculty — Kimberly Lyle!

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell

Zeros + Ones by Sadie Plant

Participation by Claire Bishop

Translation by Sophie J. Williamson 

Information by Sarah Cook

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines... by James Bridle

Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

To quote from her artist website:

Kimberly's research explores the implications of technology on our relationships with each other and the more than human world. Many of her projects challenge the social values historically embedded within these tools by misusing or subverting their conventional systems of language and logic. Moving fluidly between tangible and digital processes, her work aims to re-imagine what technology can be and who it is for. She has participated in exhibitions and symposiums at ISEA (Gwangju, Korea); Flux Factory (NYC); International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art (Berlin, Germany); Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference (Tempe, AZ); the Symposium for Literature, Science, and the Arts (Irvine, CA); Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Toluca, Mexico); Tucson Museum of Art; and the Phoenix Art Museum. She has been the recipient of fellowships and residencies at Sculpture Space, Mildred’s Lane, Elsewhere Museum, Signal Culture, and the Vermont Studio Center. She received an MFA in Intermedia from Arizona State University, a BA in Psychology from Stetson University, and completed post-baccalaureate studies in Sculpture and Expanded Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Technology at the University of Georgia.

[hhhuixin]

The Design Museum: Surrealism and Design 1/Nov/22

We looked at an exhibition called ‘Objects of Desire’ which is a surrealistic exhibition.

Because I am unfamiliar with the term "surrealistic, I am very interested in the meaning and concept of each work. I believe that once I understand the significance of these works, it will be more helpful to open my mind to the one-week project.

Cadeau (Gift), 1963 replica of lost 1921 original Man Ray

This work is a combination of ordinary European flat iron and nails, which turns a most common object into a non-functional and dangerous and disturbing object. Combining two unrelated things together, turning the ironing tool into a tearing tool gives the object a new role without damaging it. Although I still can't understand the meaning, I am vaguely attracted by this work.

Metamorphosis of Narcissus, 1937 Salvador Dalí

I didn't understand the picture at first, but as time passed, I noticed that my hands gradually transformed into people crouching down and Stone transformed into seeds. Just like seeing double when you stare at an object.

Footprint carpet design (sample),early 1930s Edward James Norris Wakefield for D.S. Mann

Woven wet footprints just come out of the bathtub on the carpet, which has an erotic meaning. I like this expression.

Capitello (Capital) chair, 1971 Studio65

I particularly like the boldness of this design, which transforms the marble column, which represents elegant culture, into a leisure seat. It's also made of soft, low-cost materials. Overturned people's habitual thinking about Greek pillars.

Lily Pad Tree, 2018 Nacho Carbonell

I like the concept of transforming an object into a living organism. It's amazing how different materials can be skillfully combined!!!

Automatic drawings, 2006-19 Ronan Bouroullec

I especially like these lines! I also like this painting's method of temporarily throwing away thinking, and using the body's independent consciousness to decide the whereabouts of these lines.

Photographs and objects from ‘Designs for an overpopulated planet: The Foragers’, 2009 Dunne & Raby Photographs Jason Evans

How can these designs help people survive after the food shortage crisis in the future? This is an interesting idea. These designs called "urban foragers" will help people extract nutrients from the urban environment.

Embody the real-world problems through the design of daily life and imagination.

Lobster Telephone, 1938 Salvador Dalí Edward James

The lobster's tail (where the genitals are located) will be very close to the mouth when using this phone, which has a strong erotic significance. It is also a design that breaks conventional habits and cognition. Perhaps this is the significance of surrealism:)

Homme (Man), 1985 editionof 1971, original Ruth Francken

Pincushion to Serve as Fetish, 1965, Dorothea Tanning

High Tea Pot, 2003 Studio, Wieki Somers

Le Génie de l’espèce (The Genius of the Species),2017 edition of 1938 original, Wolfgang Paalen

Pools & Pouf!, 2004, Robert Stadler

6:Side 1, Curved Chest of Drawers, 2013-14 edition of 1970 original, Shiro Kuramata

It's about exhibiting more photos, combining more unrelated materials with the object itself. Gives this artwork more meaning.

These are some sketches I draw in the exhibition.

[yozff]

I’ve reached the edge of what I am willing and equipped to do with design in a commercial context. This is one of very few spaces where we might remove industrialisation from design and explore the cones of the plausible and possible.

This is essential for many things: • approach the many wicked problems of the climate era

• imagine our way through late capitalism • challenge anglo-centricity and anthropocentrism

• further Design as a practice of future-ing (and not one of selling shit)

• other, ideally more humorous, things

The rise of design-thinking and her coupling with big-T Technology (spawning their own darling Fenrir: UX) has continued in the patterns of the past. In the mid-century, design was used to direct lifestyle from the highrise to the supermarket shelves. Now design works on the digital architecture of the supermarket itself. We’ve taken the key concept of understanding the contextual situation of real people in order that we can better problem-find and have applied it to keep people on screens. Under the guise of a slick ’n sexy user exp.

Right now we need design not to make us buy, but to make us think (thank you, Dunne & Raby).

But we must recognise that we’re not close yet. It will take a baseline shift from the consumable to the conceptual. It will take narrative, storytelling and folklore to inspire and critically imagine the future of what might be. In the same way ‘􏰀e Godfather’ changed how organised crime self-identifies, how ‘􏰀e Minority Report’ generated a schema of what near-future technology looks like, design needs the power of the tall tale to move the dial from the probable. Systems wide change emerges with or without us, but for design to be a deeper systemic influence, good design must be inextricable from cinematic experience.

Ultimately, that’s my motivation — to find and work with others who believe design can imagine how the world could be; develop the tools to envisage and question that future; and bring others along too. A design moonshot.

[himanshi2002]

NOTES

Speculative design notes

DAY-1

Viewings from Love, Death & Robots:

Volume 1 : Ice Age- how possible cities can look like, critics of war, humour, ice cube inside mermaid

Volume 1 : When the Yoghurt took over

Volume 1: Zima Blue

Sci-Fi= Science Fiction

Content- medium of fiction

Types of content- multimedia, stories, poem, storytelling

OWN DEFINITION 

Fiction is imagination

speculative= assumption, storytelling, whimsy, educated guess, 

fiction= something that is not possible now

Future- unknown, not certain, moving forward in time aging, assumption is not possible for now

DEFINITION- storytelling is an assumption which is not possible now but can be in future.

WHAT’S?

It’s a lens- looking at design process, dreaming of 

Found by industrial design and architect

Time can run parallel, forward, backward to you

Started with design thinking and design research

Critical design(1960-1970) was a sibling of product design

Climate, culture environment no one is talking about that 

You can imagine good and bad consequences

narrow-generic-super-AI

Utopia x Dystopia

Utopia- idea of perfect imagination

Dystopia- idea of imperfect imagination

Scenario- sequence of series

Critic- critiquing

Possible future- past,present, future

Design Ficton Parmeters: Senario based critique of possible futures using extrapolations to build disruptive versions of society

Speculative Design Parameters: Proposals to trigger critical debates on future consequences of design and technology using  accentuation

Extrapolation- from a point

Cyborg- combination of human and machine

Eg- heart of humans could be cyborg 

Fission & fusion

Fission- it separates

Fusion- it combines

Strategic forecast/ firm- forensic architecture 

Critical design came in 1990 and published in 1999

Critical design consist of design thinking, design research, design fiction and speculative design and all this 4 terms together makes speculative fiction and futures

The Who

DUNNE & RABY (Anthony Dunne & Fionna Raby)

First published the term Critical Design

Lists of Books Published and generic contents

Social dreaming- intersection of technology for a better/ worst future 

DAY 2

Series- based in russia, northern side, after 1999, enemy being super natural/ undead, music when same person comes, relation between father and son becomes more intermediate 

Objects- locker, gun, tommy

Forensic= gold smith in uk- a department of theoretical knowledge 

Architecture-= space

Forensic- Precise, investigate, crime, proof, evidence, examining, ,dr physiologist

Sequence images from time, space and map it.

Scientist journalist graphic design architecture = team of forensic architecture 

Tactics

Converting objects to people

Personal relationship

Essac Eumo- read his work

Tools

Phone with camera

Google earth for sequence ergonomics

3d modeling

Data visualization

Audio

Sensory memory

AR/ VR 

photography/ videography 

Future of war- cyber, developer, virus 

Details of series

GMO- Genetically Modified organism

War between person and rat 

Probable- chance hai

Plausible- more definite

Preferable- your choice

Possible

DAY 3

TENSILE STRUCTURE- fabric that can be stretched

GEODESIC DOMES- Used for future visualization

The walking city- bubble shape- 1964

Prefabricated- like lego blocks, metro- just join parts

Parameters

Critical and Provocative

Imagination and Creativity

Fictional Prototyping

Ambiguity and Uncertainty

Narrative and Storytelling

Open-Ended Exploration

[sterlingarcher23]

Flying W - Wonder Woman.

The Winnebago RV used is from 1972 - The logo is called "Flying W" (and in 1986 the Winnebago RV industry established the Flying W program in to recognize select dealers for service excellence and superior customer satisfaction.)

I don't know about you but the version of this one in particular reminds me a bit of ...

They even shot her standing there with this logo in her back. And it's a "Flying W" like "If you want to stop One you will need to fly" again making a connection between One and Max or better: Max is One. One of the good Ones since there are only three Ones in the show: 00I and 0II.

Theres no doubt a strong connection towards Wonder Woman been made in the show.

That's issue 326 > 3+2+6=11.

The first issue of The Legend of Wonder Woman (the comic Lucas is reading to Max in the script if I recall correctly) was released in May 1986. Weird, did they want to push Will's birthday to May (Birthday gate) allegedly because it better fits the lip movement? - I doubt that this is an oversight and they didn't use it because it was released much later but another clue left in the script that March and May are interchangeable and there are potential timeline shenanigans in the show.

And since the Duffers like Upside-downs/inversions, just have some fun and invert Max's initials ... Or just the Wonder Woman logo.

And note that Mike offers El some M&Ms (because he didn't get his break...I mean KitKat) while Max is right there in the background. So MM=Max Mayfield. And certain fonts especially in the Wonder Woman logo once inverted give us different initials.

I guess reflections/Upside-downs/inversions/mirrors are all just a coincidence. There's nothing like this in the show at all. There's nothing to see here, folks! Or is there? That mirror shots are btw like a Stranger Things version of the Sherlock mirror.

If Henry's shadow is Vecna(Edward?), then Max's mirror is...El. The walkie talkie isn't very subtle. Seriously, I wouldn't do/talk about this if there weren't inversions and mirrors etc in show and it's not even very subtle. Many parallels people talk about are actually mirrors. (Even literal mirrors like the one 00I gets thrown through which then switches the alignment of the shards to give us a mirror of him and the "Zoomer"-El that fights back.) It was the first thing that I noticed and that's what started this.

Oh, and shall we guess who's in room 110? (Just saw it, so take it with a grain of salt but this looks like Maya behind the window.)

Mirrors: 011/110

So, MM=WW because as pointed out in the comic reading scene Wonder Woman has another name, alias or "alter ego": Princess Diana. Like Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Clark Kent is Superman etc etc

All you need is simple math. 5'6 / 5 6 =??

Nah, just imagining things.

................................................................................

I do have an idea what the blue hair tie and yellow watch do resemble and mean as an allegory that totally fits the narrative. And yes, it's Wonder Woman linked too.

Had a post some time ago about the Lasso of Truth - and remember the poster for "Dear Billy"? It says "No more lies".

That Unbreakable is an inspo is obvious (and official) and David Dunn's weakness is water. (You know the whole rabies/fear of water thing which I likely will address in another post.) Nonetheless, the superhero coding is there.

[rozieramati]

Dunne and Raby - Placebo Project (2001)

[baoyiyuan]

Independent projects｜#21

Speculative Design Learning

Speculative Design was first proposed by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, professors at the Royal College of Art, and is orientated towards future scenarios by reflecting on real problems. While design is concerned with how the real world works, speculative design is concerned with how design might make the world in the future.

While traditional design tends to focus on a specific problem to find a solution, discursive design only presents and provokes discussion, not the end result, and the audience's thinking is the purpose itself. The key to understanding discursive design is to understand discernment". The term "discursive" is derived from classical German philosophy and refers to critical thinking using logic and reason, rather than empirical research or simple fantasy.

How

Scenario construction Scenario can be understood as user+task+environment, which tells a set of interaction process between the user and the product in the form of storytelling, and can be understood as a piece of animation in the place. Designers think about the future of the world through "scenarios".

Reverse Thinking Refers to selecting a situation that depicts a specific situation in the future and then extrapolating what steps need to be completed in order to achieve that goal, with key events and milestones defined as the necessary path towards that future.

Fictional Narrative Narrative is a design tool that can express a scenario in detail, helping us to move beyond logical reasoning to portray a particular point of view. Speculative design also applies fictional narratives to future scenarios, stitching together humour, irony, absurd facts and imagination.

Drawing inspiration from literature and film In literature, speculative design acquires the skill to weave fictional narratives and the ability to keep readers immersed in imaginary worlds. Speculative design is also a way of exploring human nature, limited only by human language.

(image12 Future Possibilities Chart)

Ref:Little Red Book

[artigianatodigitale]

Speculative Everything

"Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming" é um livro escrito pelos designers Anthony Dunne e Fiona Raby, publicado em 2013. A obra apresenta uma abordagem única e provocativa ao design, explorando o potencial do design especulativo como uma ferramenta para imaginar futuros alternativos e provocar discussões em torno de questões sociais, culturais, políticas e éticas.

Os autores defendem que o design, em vez de ser apenas uma disciplina voltada para a solução de problemas e a criação de produtos, pode se tornar uma forma de pensamento crítico e especulativo, abrindo espaço para a reflexão e o debate sobre o mundo em que vivemos e o futuro que desejamos construir. Com essa perspectiva, o design especulativo tem como objetivo questionar o status quo e imaginar futuros diferentes, a partir de cenários e narrativas fictícias, que desafiem nossas suposições e valores, e nos façam refletir sobre as implicações e possibilidades das escolhas que fazemos hoje.

"Speculative Everything" está dividido em três partes. Na primeira, os autores introduzem o conceito de design especulativo e discutem suas origens, influências e abordagens, incluindo o papel da ficção científica, a importância da imaginação e o uso de métodos de pesquisa exploratória. Eles também apresentam exemplos de projetos e práticas de design especulativo, ilustrando a diversidade de temas e questões que podem ser abordados por essa abordagem.

Na segunda parte do livro, Dunne e Raby exploram diferentes aspectos do design especulativo, como a construção de mundos, a criação de artefatos e a articulação de narrativas. Eles destacam a importância de desenvolver uma linguagem e uma estética própria para o design especulativo, capaz de comunicar ideias e provocar emoções, e também de envolver o público em discussões e debates sobre os futuros possíveis.

A terceira e última parte do livro é dedicada à aplicação do design especulativo em diferentes contextos e à reflexão sobre seu potencial como instrumento de mudança social e política. Os autores examinam o papel do design especulativo na educação, na política, na indústria e na sociedade em geral, e discutem os desafios e as oportunidades que essa abordagem apresenta.

Em suma, "Speculative Everything" propõe uma nova forma de pensar e praticar o design, que vai além da mera criação de objetos e soluções funcionais, e busca engajar o público em uma reflexão crítica e imaginativa sobre o presente e o futuro. O livro é uma leitura essencial para designers, estudantes e profissionais interessados em explorar novas abordagens e perspectivas no campo do design, e em contribuir para a construção de futuros mais justos, sustentáveis e desejáveis.

[ofthuinn]

Dunne A. & Raby F. (2013). Speculative everything : design fiction and social dreaming. MIT Press.