In 2011, the Dutch industrial giant Philips unveiled something it called the Microbial Home. It was a zero-waste, self-sustaining vision of the future, where household appliances ran on food and human ...

How can speculative design address climate change? “We did what we could to not say ‘we’re going to solve this huge important problem,’” John Jung, programmer analyst at University of Chicago ...

*You go to design events, and you learn something new every day. Carl DiSalvo - A Short Rant on The What & Why of Public Design from Alfredo Aponte on Vimeo. "The Public Design Workshop is a research ...

Speculative Design Basics from the School of Critical Design is an introduction to speculative design and creating organisational impact. Speculative design is the design of future products and ...

Paul Gong is designing the cow of tomorrow. As a speculative designer, he doesn't need a ranch or farm. Instead he designs cows on a computer and outputs the results on a 3D printer. One of Gong's ...

Speculative design in human–computer interaction involves creating imagined artefacts, scenarios and narratives that surface hidden assumptions in technology and provoke critical reflection on ...

Speculative visualization is a branch of speculative design, which deals with the “rhetorical strategy” used in design to bring awareness to social and political agendas (Kim & DiSalvo, p. 1). This ...

Dezeen School Shows: a project exploring a table's concept through experimental materials is among the projects from the Paris School of Architecture. Also featured is a project exploring social, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. You may have heard it said… that truly good design is actually design you don’t notice. Clothes that ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. While they might be seen as mere artefacts from centuries ago, these grids still have a profound ...