True lies: What on earth is design fiction?
A new wave of designers is moving away from tackling current issues to create speculative scenarios for the future that have come to be know as design fiction. If fiction is primarily a form of entertainment and design is a problem-solving tool, what on earth is design fiction?
By Aleksandra Szymanska
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