Dunne & Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.
Archive of impossible objects: globes, 2019
The exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art combines motion graphics, films, interactive media, and mixed reality, bringing visitors into a special world of ancient Cambodian sculptures, including physical and digital. The HoloLens mixed reality experience, developed in cooperation with Interactive Commons, guides visitors through the complex story of the discovery, origin, and restoration of Krishna sculptures through the use of enhanced holograms, soundscapes, and narration movies ...
More about the Project InfoSpeculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming, 2013
Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas...
More about the Project InfoST Etienne Design Biennale, 2019
The exhibition consists of a number of design proposals presented through models, photographic scenarios, videos and 3D texts. It's an experiment in how to exhibit conceptual design proposals where the narrative and ideas are as important as the designs. Everything is treated as an object, including texts and images.
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Designs for fragile personalities in anxious times, 2004/05
In the field of design, users and consumers are usually characterised in narrow and stereotypical ways resulting in a world of manufactured objects that reflects an impoverished view of what it means to be human. This project set out to explore and develop a design approach that would lead to products that embodied an understanding of the consumer/user as a complex existential being.
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