{"id":37536,"date":"2011-12-13T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/forwards-professor-anthony-dunne-head-of\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:30:53","slug":"forwards-professor-anthony-dunne-head-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/forwards-professor-anthony-dunne-head-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-37536 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/forwards-professor-anthony-dunne-head-of\/attachment\/37537\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lw5f7yPo021qene28o1_250-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h5>Forwards<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Professor Anthony Dunne<\/strong><br \/> Head of Programme, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.di.research.rca.ac.uk\/content\/home\">Design Interactions<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Richard Banks, Alex Taylor and Tim Regan<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/groups\/sds\/\">Socio-Digital Systems<\/a>, Microsoft Research Cambridge.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;It\u2019s clear that tools for reading and writing are evolving exponentially, with this year\u2019s tweet replacing last year\u2019s 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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/projects\/thefutureofwriting\/\">The Future of Writing &#8211; Microsoft Research<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>#speculative design, #design fiction, #critical design<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forwards Professor Anthony Dunne Head of Programme, Design Interactions &ldquo;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9Lq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536","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=37536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37538,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37536\/revisions\/37538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}