Forwards
Professor Anthony Dunne
Head of Programme, Design Interactions
“In this project with Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and the Microsoft Office Team, we explore new ways design can make technology-supported writing and authorship more meaningful and relevant to our lives, both now, and in the future, by thinking not only about new applications but implications as well.
The aim is to inspire, stimulate discussion, and provoke debate in order to help achieve a technological future that reflects the complex, troubled people we are, rather than the easily satisfied consumers and users we are supposed to be.”
Richard Banks, Alex Taylor and Tim Regan
Socio-Digital Systems, Microsoft Research Cambridge.
“It’s clear that tools for reading and writing are evolving exponentially, with this year’s tweet replacing last year’s blog post. The danger here is that technology becomes the primary way through which authorship and consumption are defined. In this project, undertaken with the Royal College of Art in London, a number of world-class designers speculate beyond technology and functionality on the possibilities for authorship. From the material to the symbolic, the philosophical to the political, this thought-provoking body of work invites new questions on the forms and processes of literary creation.”
(via The Future of Writing – Microsoft Research)
#speculative design, #design fiction, #critical design