Not Here, Not Now: An Evening with Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby

Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby have changed the course of design. Through their work as practitioners and educators, they have shaped a new generation of designers––at London's Royal College of Art, Vienna's Angewandte Kunst, and more recently New York's New School, among other institutions––that are focused on designing the right questions that will lead to the knotty problem whose solution will spark ideas that will reinforce or correct paths towards a better future for all.

Design is often about what is tangible and urgent: the pressing need, the novel solution, the new product. Dunne and Raby's outstanding work is focused instead on sparking debate on the social, cultural, and ethical implications of our choices and habits––from emerging technologies to our cohabitation with other species.

In this keynote lecture, which centers on their new book Not Here, Not Now, the pair extends their long-standing practice of critical and speculative design into enriching new directions. They imagine tools for thinking, scenarios for feeling, and artifacts that collapse the distance between science fiction and everyday life, helping us grapple with uncertainty, ambiguity, and the futures we may yet have to inhabit.

This event took place on October 28, 2025.