â<i>Not Here, Not Now</i> successfully demonstrates the centrality of Dunne & Raby to contemporary design. By examining projects oscillating between reality and fiction, this must-read travelogue encourages bold thought for designers, scholars, artists, and beyond.â<br /><b>âAlexandra Midal, Professor, University of Art and Design, HEADâGenève (HES-SO); author of <i>The Murder Factory</i> and <i>Design by Accident</i></b><br /><br />âIn an age of crisis, design is expected to produce bold solutions, yet designers are trapped in systems that allow hardly any deviation from the norm. Dunne & Raby have dedicated themselves to expanding the design imaginary, and this book is a valuable toolbox of approaches that open up a world of many worlds.â<br /><b>âJustin McGuirk, Director, Future Observatory</b><br /><br />âIn a quest for the radical potential of a more expansive reality, Dunne and Raby invite designers to engage the world with a speculative what-if sensibility. Refusing the stifling foreclosure of the future into the shape of what is most statistically probable, the authorsâ impossible objects are alluring thought experiments of the not-yet-here, however vulnerable and uncertain that world might be.â<br /><b>âRania Ghosn, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, MIT; Founding Principal, DESIGN EARTH</b><br /><br />âWhat might it mean to design, not for the world as it is, but for the world as it should be? This visionary book surveys a range of âimpossibleâ designs, helping us to imagine how they might become possible, or even probable.â<br /><b>âSteven Shaviro, Emeritus Professor of English, Wayne State University</b>
Introduction: Realists of a Larger Reality
1. An Archive of Impossible Objects
Objects Made From Words
A Machine-Generated Impossible Object
An Object from an Alternative Visual History of Quantum Computing
Swatches of Forbidden, Chimerical, and Imaginary Colors
A Pocket Universe in the Home
Objects Undergoing Space-Time Collapse
A Stone Raft
An Object from One of Einsteinâs Dreams
An Object from an Alternate Quantum Imaginary
A Human, Imagined Through a Generalized Nonhuman Umwelt
A Flag for Biomia
A Vegetable Lamb
2. Quantum Commonsense: New Metaphors, Images and Concepts?
3. Unreal by Design
4. A Public Lending Library of Things
5. The United Micro Kingdoms (UMK), a Travellerâs Tale
6. Once Possible, Now Impossible: A Partial Inventory of National Dreams Made Physical
7. A Nonstandard, Incomplete Glossary of the Not Here, Not Now
C/D: By Way of a Conclusion.
Bibliography
List of Illustrations and Credits