Anthony Dunne's 1998 book Hertzian Tales had been a game changer within the design world, bravely provoking a repositioning of what it meant, and what it could mean, to identify yourself as a designer. It was the only book recommended to me on my first day of my final year at design school, in 2001; one week later, the World Trade Center came down and so much changed. Speculative Everything, the most recent book by Dunne and Fiona Raby, would also be most usefully encountered in the setting of design education, as a lucid exemplar of how to pursue and enact a critical position through practice or as a foil to an unreconstructed, market-led approach. It is accessibly written, thoughtfully organised, and generously infused with a thoughtful selection of images.
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