Design Fiction EP/Volume 2 - SternbergPress 2016

After the first EP volume on the activities of the early Italian avant-garde, the second volume in the series identifies the current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture. Practitioners and theorists explore this strategy by pushing the debate into both speculative and real-fictitious terrains. Newly commissioned interviews, artist projects, and essays shed light on topics such as parafiction and algorithmic ambiguity. Included in the volume is one of the final interviews to be published with novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco; a conversation with Bruce Sterling, in which the science-fiction author responds to designers who reference his writings; and design theorist Vilém Flusser’s 1966 essay “On Fiction,” in its first English translation.
Contributions by The Atlas Group (1989–2004), Paola Antonelli, Alex coles, Anthony Dunne, James Dyer, Umberto Eco, Vilém Flusser, Verina Gfader, Will Holder, Experimental Jetset, Sophie Krier, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Lucas Massen, Valle Medina, Philippe Morel, Rick Poynor, Fiona Raby, Benjamin Reynolds, Hiroko Shiratori, Bruce Sterling, Huib Haye Van der Werf.

SternbergPress - 2016
170p - EN - 12.5x20cm - softcover - good overall condition