This installation piece presents Dunne & Raby’s idea from their book Speculative Everything, and how the most valuable design intersects the zones of the plausible and the probable.

From the unique structural construction, the use of different colors, and the graduate convergence from ideas to concepts, this mobile represents a physical mind map of the authors’ intellectual process. It also follows the train of thoughts and shows my response to this idea - while one side of speculative design is really innovative and inspiring, the other side might involve giving designers too much overarching power that could be dangerous.

Largely speaking, this project is also based on the assumption that writing systems and their articulation sit at the intersection of technology, language, and culture. The ability to reproduce these systems is integral to deeply-rooted cultural notions regarding memory, power, history, the nation-state, personal identity, media and definitions of authority and knowledge.