speaker:anthony dunne
We are pleased to announce that Anthony Dunne will be a Keynote Speaker at the TASA-ICoD Conference. Dunne is a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby as well as University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and Co-Director of the Designed Realities Studio at Parsons / The New School in New York. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art (CAA).
His projects and writing with Fiona Raby explore ways of bringing different kinds of speculative thought from fields including philosophy, science, and literature into conversation with design. Their books include Hertzian Tales (1999, 2006), Design Noir (2001, 2021), Speculative Everything (2013), and Not Here, Not Now (Spring 2025) Their design projects are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the MAK, Vienna. In 2015, Dunne & Raby received the inaugural MIT Media Lab Award, and in 2021 they were made Royal Designers for Industry and Life Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts.
The book 'Speculative Everything' published by MIT Press, photo from MIT Press website
Anthony Dunne, is, in collaboration with Fiona Raby, the author of the book Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming (published by MIT Press, 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. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want).
TASA-ICoD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (2024 ICoD PLATFORM MEETING)
Dunne will be a speaker at th e 2024 TASA-ICoD International Conference. ICoD Members are invited to participate in the inaugural the Conference, which will take place as the ICoD PM exceptionally in 2024, for free. Non-Members are also welcome. The event will take place from 16–18 October 2024. This year's theme is 'Deep Time Designing'. This collaborative event brings together design practitioners, educators, and cultural theorists to explore innovative approaches to leveraging design for a brighter future while aiming to foster discussions on educating future generations to harness design as a catalyst for positive change.
For more information, please visit the Conference event page here.