Fiona Raby's research while affiliated with University of Applied Arts Vienna and other places
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Publications (7)
The United Micro Kingdoms (UmK) was a design experiment commissioned by the Design Museum, London, UK, from 1st May-31st August 2013.
Collections like the Wellcome Trust, Pitt Rivers, and London Museum hold everyday objects from past or distant societies. When we see a strange shoe or ritualistic object we wonder what kind of society must have prod...
DESIGN ACT Socially and politically engaged design today – critical roles and emerging tactics is a book that presents and discusses contemporary design practices that engage with political and societal issues. Since 2009, the Iaspis project DESIGN ACT has been highlighting and discussing practices in which designers have been engaging critically a...
The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001), Design Noir is the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby's work.
Consisting of three elements - a 'manifesto' on the possibilities of designing with and for the 'secret life' of electronic objects; notes for...
Citations
... Secondly, speculative design principles can contribute substantially to carbon-neutral service design projects. As Dunne & Raby (2001) emphasized, designers possess a distinctive opportunity to transcend the confines of academic discourse and commercial pursuits. Their role extends to delving into the critical social functions of design concerning broader societal concerns. ...
... The proliferation of 'innovation' or 'design labs' in central and local government signals the increasing institutionalization of design in government (Lewis et al, 2021;van Buuren et al, 2020). These phenomena are part of a historical and categorical expansion in the role of design in society (Buchanan, 1992;Ericson & Mazé, 2011). However, the field of design for policy as yet lacks a strong conceptual, theoretical, epistemological, methodological and empirical grounding (Hermus et al, 2020;Whicher, 2020). ...
... The design games proposed by Ehn facilitate experimenting with possible configurations of systems through props and rules [25]. While the tactics of Placebo Design [23] inspire participants to address problems without solving them [43]. Recently, Vines et al proposed the use of 'questionable concepts', where sets of deliberately flawed design solutions, such as an exploding handbag to deter thieves, are introduced into workshop sessions as a kind of prop, to facilitate critique and discussion [55]. ...
... While an emphasis on functionality may still be deemed highly significant or even "sacred" in terms of design purpose, alternative design practices may embody different conceptions of purpose. For instance, products of the Critical Design movementas conceptualized by Dunne and Raby (2001) closely resemble artistic works, insofar as they do not comply with traditional notions of functional utility. These works nonetheless serve very particular purposes (for example, design for provocation or debate). ...
Reference: Towards a Grammar of Design Motives
