What is Design Fiction?
Design fiction is about merging fictional literary practices and speculative artistic craftmanship in order to engage in critical ways of future making in design.
DESIGN MEETS FICTION
The social design unit has previously worked with Danish authors Kaspar Colling Nielsen and Peter Adolphsen with the aim at exploring new ground conditions for design. Colling Nielsen’s dystopian vision of a Danish civil war (2018-2025) has been our starting point for a design-based inquiry into the as yet unknown socio-cultural consequences of the financial and economic crises; and Adolphsen’s speculations of a pandemic wrinkle fucking disease set stage in 2016 for a collective design and theatre performance.
PUBLICATIONS
The Role of Fiction in Experiments within Design, Art & Architecture: towards a new typology of Design Fiction
Knutz, E., Markussen, T. & Christensen, P. R.(2013)Artifact, vol.3, Issue 2, pp.2.1-2.13
The Poetics of Design Fiction
Markussen, T. & Knutz, E. (2013) In Proc. of the DPPI Conference, ACM Press.
Design Fiction as a Practice for Researching the Social
Markussen, T., Knutz, E. & Lenskjold, T.(2020) In Temes de Disseny, Vol. 36: 16-39
PUBLICATIONS
The Role of Fiction in Experiments within Design, Art & Architecture: towards a new typology of Design Fiction
Knutz, E., Markussen, T. & Christensen, P. R.(2013)Artifact, vol.3, Issue 2, pp.2.1-2.13
The Poetics of Design Fiction
Markussen, T. & Knutz, E. (2013) In Proc. of the DPPI Conference, ACM Press.
Researchers
Thomas Markussen and Eva Knutz, Department of Design & Communication, University of Southern Denmark