Design Noir The Secret Life of Electronic Objects

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1350070637 | 178 pages | True PDF | 127.52 MB
The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in 2001),Design Noiris the essential primary source for understanding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings for Dunne & Raby's work.
Consisting of three elements - a 'manifesto' on the possibilities of designing with and for the 'secret life' of electronic objects; notes for an embryonic network of critical designers and, most famously, the presentation of the Placebo Project - a prototype for a critical design poetics enacted around electronic furniture-objects -Design Noiroffers an in-depth exploration of one of the most seminal design projects of the last two decades, one that arguably initiated speculating through design in its contemporary forms.