Designed Realities Studio

Near Future Laboratory Podcast: Dunne & Raby in conversation with Julian Bleecker

Near Future Laboratory Podcast: Dunne & Raby in conversation with Julian Bleecker

Material Imaginaries, a collaborative essay with Victoria Hattam and Miriam Ticktin for Perspecta 54: Atopia

Scholarship is often distinguished from creative work: real versus fiction. Yet imagination plays a role in scholarship, just as research plays a role in creative work. What are the conditions for generative thinking in both cases? What allows for imaginative leaps – for instance, what enables us to see things differently, to bring two very different ideas or objects together, or to open new ways of thinking? And what is the relationship between imagination and materialization—is materialization a way of imagining?

Material Imaginaries, a collaborative essay with Victoria Hattam and Miriam Ticktin for Perspecta 54: Atopia

Design Noir has been republished by Bloomsbury Visual Arts as part of their Radical Thinkers in Design series edited by Clive Dilnot and Eduardo Staszowski. With a new introduction by Alice Twemlow.

Design Noir has been republished by Bloomsbury Visual Arts as part of their Radical Thinkers in Design series edited by Clive Dilnot and Eduardo Staszowski. With a new introduction by Alice Twemlow.

She attempted, and failed (nicely) to cast the inside of her room in parts, seeking solace in rendered objects inspired by discarded everyday objects. Slowly, the documentation of experiments, observations and reflections became the project.

‘No New Forms’ by Emily Mullaney. Surfacing inner conflicts and tensions between working with matter and its resistive nature on the one hand, and the seductive and transformative nature of digital media on the other. (UtransLab 21)

Six Sides by Olivier Brueckner focusses on how living and working in one room for many months shifted how he began to think about space, distance, proximity, inside and outside, orientation, etc. (UtransLab 2021)

Video still from Wesley Chau’s Coop, a speculative fiction about a community of humans co-existing with chickens. (UtransLab 2021)

Video still from Wesley Chau’s Coop, a speculative fiction about a community of humans co-existing with chickens. (UtransLab 2021)

Ayushi Jain’s exploration, using Jainism, of the current boundaries and possibilities of the ‘complaint report worksheet’ used by the NYPD to register any criminal activity (Between the Silos 2021).

Sketches for some work-in-progress on diplomatic gifts. Part of the ongoing archive of impossible objects.

Sketches for some work-in-progress on diplomatic gifts. Part of the ongoing archive of impossible objects.

WiP: Model (Imaginative Mobilities)

WiP: Model (Imaginative Mobilities)

Biomia: An experiment in interdisciplinary imagining. Illustration by Kyung-Me and David Linchen in response to a series of discussions with a group of faculty and students across The New School exploring the idea of the microbiome as a lens for thinking about and re-imagining mobility, boundaries, and space. (Imaginative Mobilities)

Drone Model (Imaginative Mobilities).

Drone Model (Imaginative Mobilities).

Unreal by Design (Work in Progress). With reference to Quentin Meillassoux (Extro-Science Fiction), John Law (Reals, Fractiverse), Ursula K. Le Guin (Larger Reality), and Ziauddin Sardar (Post Normal Times)

WiP: Imaginative Mobilities

WiP: Imaginative Mobilities

An Archive of Impossible Objects (workshop): Starting with Momus’ statement that “every lie creates a parallel world, the world in which it is true”, Nestor Pestana proposed 4 (impossible) masks for navigating the parallel, orthogonal, elastic and bent realities created by politicians’ lies.

In her project ‘Unseers’, Sagarika Sundarem (MFA Textiles) worked with felted wool, and natural dyeing and craft techniques from India and other parts of the world, a textile that was first made by pastoral nomads over 10,000 years ago. (UtransLab 2020)

As part of his thesis work in MFA Textiles, Peter Salera used our class to develop a back story for his studio work. A set of extracts from a future anthropological document that attempts, in a gently humorous way, to retrospectively interpret the cosmology underlying his objects which make use of salvaged cables. (UtransLab 2020)

Clip from June Lee’s video essay ‘A Post-Work Renter’s Paradise’ (UTransLab 2020)

Installation proposal for June Lee’s video essay ‘A Post-Work Renter’s Paradise’ (UTransLab 2020)

Installation proposal for June Lee’s video essay ‘A Post-Work Renter’s Paradise’ (UTransLab 2020)

Clip from Julia Szagdaj’s Accentful Anthem (UTransLab 2020)

Still from June Lee’s video essay ‘A Post-Work Renter’s Paradise’ (UTransLab 2020)

Still from June Lee’s video essay ‘A Post-Work Renter’s Paradise’ (UTransLab 2020)

Miriam Young’s ‘Species in Dialogue’ built on techniques from screenwriting to explore ways of using language to draw other living and nonliving entities into scenario writing (UTransLab 2020).

Miriam Young’s ‘Species in Dialogue’ built on techniques from screenwriting to explore ways of using language to draw other living and nonliving entities into scenario writing (UTransLab 2020).

Kalyani Tupkary, Moon Calendar (UtransLab Class 2020)

Kalayni Tupkary’s Calendar Collective is a living archive of alternate calendars. It is an ongoing investigation for collecting, cataloguing and publishing calendars that are little-known to our world. (UTransLab Class 2020)

Kalyani Tupkary, Drift Calendar (UtransLab Class 2020)

Kalyani Tupkary, Drift Calendar (UtransLab Class 2020)