Beyond Radical Design? | Speculative Everything book club

Join us for the inaugural session of a multi-week reading group diving into Speculative Everything, a key text in speculative design that challenges the norm: what if design is more about envisioning alternatives than just solving problems?

What to Expect:

Each week on Mondays, we'll explore a chapter of Speculative Everything, sparking conversations, engaging in collective inquiries, and experimenting together. This reading group will culminate in a collaborative public showcase, potentially featuring:

• Installations
• Speculative objects
• Design fictions
• Research artifacts
• Performances
• Publications
• Other exciting experiments to visualize alternative futures!

You are welcome to join every session or just the ones that catch your interest! Each chapter can be discussed independently, but consistent attendance will offer more chances to shape the exhibition's direction and contribute to group projects.

Whether you're an artist, designer, technologist, researcher, writer, futurist, or simply curious about new possibilities, this series invites you to collaboratively imagine and start building alternative worlds.

Meeting Schedule:

• Week 1: Preface + Chapter 1: Beyond Radical Design?
• Week 2: Chapter 2: A Map of Unreality
• Week 3: Chapter 3: Design as Critique
• Week 4: Chapter 4: Consuming Monsters: Big, Perfect, Infectious
• Week 5: Chapter 5: A Methodological Playground: Fictional Worlds and Thought Experiments
• Week 6: Chapter 6: Physical Fictions: Invitations to Make-Believe
• Week 7: Chapter 7: Aesthetics of Unreality
• Week 8: Chapter 8: Between Reality and the Impossible
• Week 9: Chapter 9: Speculative Everything
• Final Showcase Planning / Artifact Development: No meeting on Aug 10
• Showcase: Aug 26

No prior experience is needed!

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