A Japanese friend visiting London for a workshop at the Royal College of Art reports to me that an exhibition opens today at the Design Museum entitled United Micro Kingdoms: A Design Fiction.
Design theorists and educators Dunne and Raby have re-imagined England, dividing it into four zones or “super-shires” dominated by Digitarians, Bioliberals, Anarcho-evolutionists and Communo-nuclearists.
My Book of Scotlands, which features in the show, was apparently one of its inspirations. The idea of approaching the national and the political as a speculative design project originally comes from my editor at Sternberg, Ingo Niermann.
