Designs for a World of Many Worlds
by Dunne & Rabby | Designed Realities Studio
Designs for a World of Many Worlds: After the Festival depicts the imagined artefacts of a fictional festival celebrating a shift in the collective mindset of human beings. Moving away from a human-centric viewpoint, it is imagined by designers Dunne & Raby that humanity could come to understand its place in a multi-species reality, where each organism perceives and experiences their shared environments from a unique sensory perspective. Accompanying the totems and mementos, which illustrate how human-produced sound, fragrance and matter is experienced by other species, a festival costume, including a hat, shoes, glove and rucksack, suggests the celebratory garments of another time and place. Designs for a World of Many Worlds: After the Festival asks humans to imagine how they impact the worlds of other species and how their presence is perceived and spatialised.
The NGV 2024 Triennial Exhibition, co-commissioned by National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, with RMIT School of Architecture, Melbourne and Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts,(MUDAC), Lausanne Switzerland.
What Is It Like to Be a Bat
by Thomas Nagel and Dunne & Raby
In his 1974 text ‘What is it like to be a bat?’, philosopher Thomas Nagel grappled withquestions of consciousness and the impossibility of truly experiencing the world as otherspecies do. Drawing on their multispecies speculations, designers Dunne & Raby provide anew reading of his work today
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More Than Human Exhibition
The Design Museum
Dunne and Raby participate in a major exhibition bringing together art, science and radical thinking to ask how design can help our planet thrive by shifting its focus beyond human needs.