ANTHONY DUNNE, CO-DIRECTOR

Anthony is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School in New York and a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby. Between 2005-2015 he was professor and head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London.

He is the author of Hertzian Tales (1999, 2005, Korean edition 2002) and co-author, with Fiona Raby, of Design Noir (2001) and Speculative Everything (2013, Japanese edition 2015, Chinese edition 2016/17). Projects include Technological Dream Series, No 1: Robots (2007), Designs For An Over Populated Planet: Foragers (2010), The United Micro Kingdoms (2013), The School of Constructed Realities (2015), and The Many Worlds Working Group (2017-)

Dunne & Raby’s work has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and the Design Museum in London; and is in several permanent collections including MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). Anthony was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education in 2009, and was awarded the honour Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts in 2021. Dunne & Raby received the inaugural MIT Media Lab Award in 2015.

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FIONA RABY, CO-DIRECTOR

Fiona is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School in New York. Between 2011-2015 she was professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She has taught Architecture (ads04), Computer Related Design and Design Interactions since 1995. Between 2011-2015 she was Reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London. She is also a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby.

She is the co-author, with Anthony Dunne, of Design Noir (2001) and Speculative Everything (2013, Japanese edition 2015, Chinese edition 2016/17). Projects include Technological Dream Series, No 1: Robots (2007), Designs For An Over Populated Planet: Foragers (2010), The United Micro Kingdoms (2013), and The School of Constructed Realities (2015), and The Many Worlds Working Group (2017-)

Dunne & Raby’s work has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and the Design Museum in London, and is in several permanent collections including MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). In 2021, Fiona and was awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts.

www.dunneandraby.co.uk