Design Studio Vol. 5: Experimental Realism (Design) Fictions and Futures

The experimental realism provides architects with a vital means to test ideas and the untried. By injecting the experimental with a new realism, however, speculative design has the potential to advance new inclusive, equitable and desirable futures. Showcasing cutting-edge insight, the book advocates for the inclusion of speculative spatial design in architectural development. It explores the real-word application of nearfuture fantastical storytelling and the power of imagination. Discover plural design reactions in response to real possible situations.

In Other Worlds: Cities Shaped Like Fiction Liam Young Plausible Impossibilities Tom Greenall, Matteo Mastrandrea and Nicola Koller The Terraforming Benjamin H. Bratton and Nicolay Boyadjiev Equitable and Desirable Futures Gem Barton City-based Testbeds: Simulating Possible Futures in ‘Real-world’ Conditions Kathy Nothstine A New Type of Design Education: Models, Materials and Futures Matt Ward The Aesthetics of Misuse: Mitigating Excess Ayesha Silburn Meet Me Halfway: An Exploration of Architecture Across Realities Anna Pompermaier The Net Blvd Dana Barale Burdman James v Birnmann: Designing a Never-Ending Legal Drama, in a World Judges Are No Longer Human Phoebe Walton Experiments in Speculative, Critical Activism Anab Jain Speculative Design and Emerging Practice: From Local Meetups to a Global Community Phil Balagtas Future Architecture, A Beautiful Chaos César Reyes Nájera and Ethel Baraona Pohl

Gem Barton is Principal Lecturer at University of Brighton. Gem has published on the subjects of gender and feminism, film and spatial production, narrative and story telling, reality and representation, career and enterprise, academia and teaching, interiors and architecture. Gem authored Don’t Get a Job, Make a Job: How to Make it as a Creative Graduate (Laurence King, 2016).