{"product_id":"not-here-not-now-anthony-dunne-9780262049665","title":"Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen reality fails us, what can design do? Question design's relationship to reality, as Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby do, in this exhilarating, yet thoughtful journey to the edges of science, philosophy, and literature to find new ways of thinking about the possible--and about the meaning, function, and place of design in that speculative world of \"not here, not now.\" A conceptual travelogue of sorts, \u003ci\u003eNot Here, Not Now\u003c\/i\u003e brings together words, images, and objects that capture, in design form, some of the ideas encountered along the way. Itself a design experiment, the book explores ways to bring these ideas into conversation with objects through imagined archives, libraries, glossaries, taxonomies, lists, tales, and essays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe design responses in \u003ci\u003eNot Here, Not Now\u003c\/i\u003e--to a stone raft, e.g., or a vegetable lamb, swatches of imaginary colors, a pocket universe in the home, objects undergoing space-time collapse--are, like the most compelling utopias, impossible by design, aiming instead to nourish the creative, intellectual, and imaginative ground from which new possibilities, still unknown, might begin to emerge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 026204966X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262049665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Anthony Dunne","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46334713168127,"sku":"9780262049665","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7a4536f9-58f2-48d6-b3d2-948070b695eb.jpg?v=1731467565","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/not-here-not-now-anthony-dunne-9780262049665","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}