1st Edition
Design Studio Vol. 5: Experimental Realism (Design) Fictions and Futures
The experimental realism provides architects with a vital means to test ideas and the untried. By injecting the experimental with a new realism, however, speculative design has the potential to advance new inclusive, equitable and desirable futures. Showcasing cutting-edge insight, the book advocates for the inclusion of speculative spatial design in architectural development. It explores the real-word application of nearfuture fantastical storytelling and the power of imagination. Discover plural design reactions in response to real possible situations.
In Other Worlds: Cities Shaped Like Fiction
Liam Young
Plausible Impossibilities
Tom Greenall, Matteo Mastrandrea and Nicola Koller
The Terraforming
Benjamin H. Bratton and Nicolay Boyadjiev
Equitable and Desirable Futures
Gem Barton
City-based Testbeds: Simulating Possible Futures in ‘Real-world’ Conditions
Kathy Nothstine
A New Type of Design Education: Models, Materials and Futures
Matt Ward
The Aesthetics of Misuse: Mitigating Excess
Ayesha Silburn
Meet Me Halfway: An Exploration of Architecture Across Realities
Anna Pompermaier
The Net Blvd
Dana
Barale Burdman James v Birnmann: Designing a Never-Ending Legal Drama, in a World Judges Are No Longer Human
Phoebe Walton
Experiments in Speculative, Critical Activism
Anab Jain
Speculative Design and Emerging Practice: From Local Meetups to a Global Community
Phil Balagtas
Future Architecture, A Beautiful Chaos
César Reyes Nájera and Ethel Baraona Pohl
Biography
Gem Barton is Principal Lecturer at University of Brighton. Gem has published on the subjects of gender and feminism, film and spatial production, narrative and story telling, reality and representation, career and enterprise, academia and teaching, interiors and architecture. Gem authored Don’t Get a Job, Make a Job: How to Make it as a Creative Graduate (Laurence King, 2016).
