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EP - Design Fiction

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title EP - Design Fiction
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alex Coles
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:170
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 127
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1900 to c 1960
Architecture
ISBN/Barcode 9783956790485
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Sternberg Press
Imprint Sternberg Press
Publication Date 2 September 2016
Publication Country United States

Description

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 Vilem Flusser's 1966 essay "On Fiction," in its first English translation. The EP series fluidly moves between art, design, and architecture, and introduces the notion of the "extended play" into publishing, with thematically edited pocket books as median between popular magazines("single play") and academic journals ("long play"). Contributors Paola Antonelli, The Atlas Group (1989-2004), Alex Coles, Anthony Dunne, James Dyer, Umberto Eco, Experimental Jetset, Vilem Flusser, Verina Gfader, Huib Haye van der Werf, Will Holder, Sophie Krier, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Lucas Maassen, Valle Medina, Philippe Morel, Rick Poynor, Fiona Raby, Benjamin Reynolds, Hiroko Shiratori, Bruce Sterling

Author Biography

Alex Coles is a critic, editor, and Professor of Transdisciplinary Studies at the School of Art, Design, and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield, UK.