Made Up: Design's Fiction

/Volumes/Photography 1/RAW_013/Art Center As If.. Lectures September 17 2010/

“The inspiration for MADE UP originated in work created in our program that pointed toward emerging trends in art, architecture, and design worldwide,” added Anne Burdick, chair of the Graduate Media Design Program. “Through a research residency, an eclectic exhibition, panel discussions, readings, screenings, and a publication, MADE UP considers the relevance of speculation, role-playing, idealism, skepticism, and simple lying as instruments or objects of design process.”

At a time when “fake news” is part of our daily cultural lexicon, Made Up: Design’s Fictions explores lies, fantasies, and other un-real scenarios as tools of design.

Through essays, interviews, and narratives by Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Sam Jacob and other significant voices in the field, this volume questions the initial discourses around “design fiction”—a broad category of critical design that includes overlapping interests in science fiction, world building, speculation, and futuring. Made Up: Design’s Fictions advances contemporary analysis and enactment of narrative and speculation as an important part of practice today.

Essays, interviews, and narratives by: Julian Bleecker, Benjamin H. Bratton, Anne Burdick, Emmet Byrne, Stuart Candy, Fiona Raby, Tim Durfee, Sam Jacob, Norman M. Klein, Peter Lunenfeld, Geoff Manaugh, Tom Marble, m-a-u-s-e-r, Metahaven, China Miéville, Keith Mitnick, MOS, Susanna Schouweiler, Bruce Sterling, Mimi Zeiger.