The first book to be published on the work of their partnership (in
2001), Design Noir is 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 Noir offers 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. By detailing the logic
and character of the objects that were constructed; the involvement
of users with these objects over-time, and in the creation of a new
kinds of spatially and temporally distributed moments of critique
and engagement with things, Design Noir presents the case-study of
the Placebo projectas a far more complex and subtler project than
is often thought. As a bold and in many ways unprecedented
experiment in design writing and book designing, Design Noir is
itself an instance of the speculative propositional design it
expounds.
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