Dunne & Raby uses design as a medium to stimulate dis- cussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of current and emerging technologies. Its practice is centred on Critical Design, a critical theory approach to design. Dunne and Raby investigate the real physical and cultural effects of the digital domain, demonstrating that mobile phones, computers and other electronic objects such as televisions profoundly influence people's experience of their environment. Dunne & Raby TECHNOLOGICAL DREAMS SERIES: NO.1, ROBOTS 2007 _ MoMA, New York Robot n°4 _ Needy One Thesis Proposal Alfonso Tiberio
Thesis Proposal on smart furniture towards the future
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Dunne & Raby uses design as a medium to stimulate
dis-cussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public
about the social, cultural and ethical implications of current and
emerging technologies. Its practice is centred on Critical Design,
a critical theory approach to design. Dunne and Raby investigate
the real physical and cultural effects of the digital domain,
demonstrating that mobile phones, computers and other electronic
objects such as televisions profoundly influence people's
experience of
We have advanced technologically so far, and yet some-how, its
almost some sort of paranoia where were afraid to say we live in
the third technological revolution. I have an iPod in my pocket, I
have a mobile phone, I have a laptop, but then somehow I end up
going home and sitting on little wood spindle Wittengale-like
chairs. So, in a way, you could argue, were building all these
little kitsch stage sets that have absolutely nothing to do with
the age in which we live. Its strange! I find it extremely perverse
in a way. I mean, imagine right now, Im sitting here on my laptop
and I gotta go out, what am I going to go get in my
horse and carriage? No! Of course not.
Karim RashidObjectied2009 _ Documentary
Thesis ProposalAlfonso Tiberio
We have advanced technologically so far, and yet some-how, its
almost some sort of paranoia where were afraid to say we live in
the third technological revolution. I have an iPod in my pocket, I
have a mobile phone, I have a laptop, but then somehow I end up
going home and sitting on little wood spindle Wittengale-like
chairs. So, in a way, you could argue, were building all these
little kitsch stage sets that have absolutely nothing to do with
the age in which we live. Its strange! I find it extremely perverse
in a way. I mean, imagine right now, Im sitting here on my laptop
and I gotta go out, what am I going to go get in my
horse and carriage? No! Of course not.
THINGS AREGETTINGSMARTER
HOMEFURNITURE
INTERNETOF
THINGS
2008number of things
connected exceeded the number of
people on heart
FUTURE
SMART
Furniture may be adapting in subtle ways to accommodate
