Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction
Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction
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Design Fiction is making things that tell stories. It’s like science-fiction in that the stories bring into focus certain matters-of-concern, such as how life is lived, questioning how technology is used and its implications, speculating bout the course of events; all of the unique abilities of science-fiction to incite imagination-filling conversations about alternative futures.
It’s about reading P.K. Dick as a systems administrator, or Bruce Sterling as a software design manual. It’s meant to encourage truly undisciplined approaches to making and circulating culture by ignoring disciplines that have invested so much in erecting boundaries between pragmatics and imagination.
The follow-on to the Design Fiction Essay is The Manual of Design Fiction and the forthcoming The Reader's Guide to The Manual of Design Fiction.
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by Julian Bleecker
Publisher: Near Future Laboratory (March, 2009)
Language: English
Customer Reviews
I'm so happy to hold in my hand a magical artifact from our future. An object that the folks at the Near Future Lab used their wonky time machine to bring back to us. I can't wait to apply the cards with one of my current clients. Thanks for being so future forward and design smart. Only small request - make the cards even bigger!
Let me know how it goes when you bring this into a client project Curtis! (And good note regarding making the cards bigger! Good idea!)