Design Fiction: Investigating Criticalities, Political Imaginaries, etc

*"The Designed Realities Lab." No, you can't go to this lab, but I had to blog this just because it's written in such lucid and limpid DunneAndRabyese.

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*Dunne and Raby have really amped up their photography since they relocated to the USA. This FlickR account is a real model of photography-as-sensibility. Looming, empty skyscrapers, dazzling Euclidean plazas, technological objects that always have something subtly wrong with them, and nature shots, too: marshes. Vast, oozy, twilit, Ballardian marshes. I've come to find real comfort in browsing these photos, but I couldn't say why.

They're just soft of there, really