{"id":25782,"date":"2011-01-07T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/design-fiction-is-very-contemporary-and-tends-to\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T00:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T00:01:31","slug":"design-fiction-is-very-contemporary-and-tends-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/design-fiction-is-very-contemporary-and-tends-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Design Fiction is very contemporary and tends to mix speculative objects, &ldquo;diegetic prototypes,&rdquo; mockups, group activities, futurist scenarios, drawings, animations, videos, interactions, and vaguely political &ldquo;critical design&rdquo; put-ons. Design Fiction has never been a linear, narrative, literary effort at fiction. <br \/>\n*The role of writing in design-fiction is pretty much like tech-writing for other kinds of industrial-design efforts. It&rsquo;s supportive rather than central. <br \/>\n*The gray eminences of design-fiction are undoubtedly Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby of the Royal College of Art. They never write fiction. They write books, teach, and do installations.<br \/>\n&ldquo;Dunne &amp; Raby use design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of current and emerging<br \/>\ntechnologies.&rdquo; And boy, do they ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.well.com\/conf\/inkwell.vue\/topics\/400\/State-of-the-World-2011-Bruce-St-page01.html\">The WELL: State of the World 2011: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Design Fiction is very contemporary and tends to mix speculative objects, &ldquo;diegetic prototypes,&rdquo; mockups, group activities, futurist scenarios, drawings, animations, videos, interactions, and vaguely political &ldquo;critical design&rdquo; put-ons. Design Fiction has never been a linear, narrative, literary effort at fiction. *The role of writing in design-fiction is pretty much like tech-writing for other kinds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6HQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}