Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby

Not Here, Not Now

Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 185mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 788g
• ISBN-13: 9780262049665
• ISBN-10: 026204966X
• Artikelnr.: 72599413

Autorenporträt

Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Realists of a Larger Reality
1. An Archive of Impossible Objects
Objects Made From Words
A Machine-Generated Impossible Object
An Object from an Alternative Visual History of Quantum Computing
Swatches of Forbidden, Chimerical, and Imaginary Colors
A Pocket Universe in the Home
Objects Undergoing Space-Time Collapse
A Stone Raft
An Object from One of Einstein’s Dreams
An Object from an Alternate Quantum Imaginary
A Human, Imagined Through a Generalized Nonhuman Umwelt
A Flag for Biomia
A Vegetable Lamb
2. Quantum Commonsense: New Metaphors, Images and Concepts?
3. Unreal by Design
4. A Public Lending Library of Things
5. The United Micro Kingdoms (UMK), a Traveller’s Tale
6. Once Possible, Now Impossible: A Partial Inventory of National Dreams
Made Physical
7. A Nonstandard, Incomplete Glossary of the Not Here, Not Now
C/D: By Way of a Conclusion.
Bibliography
List of Illustrations and Credits