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- [](https://designfutures.guide/): AVAILABLE NOW The Field Guide to Design Futures There is something inherently fascinating yet reassuring about manuals. They promise results as long as you follow steps and recipes that you can easily replicate and apply every time you need them. The Field Guide to Design Futures works on a different premise: you build your own understanding of what Design Futures and futures thinking are and design accordingly by selecting, assembling, scraping, and skimming different entries, voices, and contributions that make up this volume. The book presents Design Futures as a discipline shaped by plurality, of approaches, perspectives, and destinations, through […]
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- [Further Readings](https://designfutures.guide/further-readings/): Abram, D. (1997). The spell of the sensuous: Perception and language in a more‑than‑human world. Random House USA Inc. Auger, J. (2013). Speculative design: Crafting the speculation. Digital Creativity, 24(1), 11–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2013.767276 Balagtas, P. (2024). Making futures work: Integrating futures thinking for design, innovation, and strategy. O’Reilly Media. Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. Bardzell, J., & Bardzell, S. (2013). What is “critical” about critical design?. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 3297–3306). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466451 Bardzell, S., Bardzell, J., Forlizzi, […]
- [Extras](https://designfutures.guide/extras/)
- [Reviews](https://designfutures.guide/reviews/): “The handbook you wished you had a decade ago.” Selene TropianoDesigner & Educator “An essential handbook for any change maker in need for a kick to shift from scenario rumination to concrete action.”
 Albéric MailletBusiness Design Lead, Nurun “What can be more ambiguous and mind-blowing than the future. This book is leaving you not only with a view but a strategy for the future.” Satu MiettinenUniversity of Lapland “The Guide continues to be the valuable companion to design futuring that it was 25 years ago, when the world was about to enter into a one-way tunnel towards the unknown.” Jorge CamachoCENTRO
- [Fictional](https://designfutures.guide/fictional/): Fictional is an experimental publishing to question, rethink, and stretch the culture of design. It’s set on releasing books about design research, culture, practice, and criticism. And maybe a few other things along the way. The Field Guide to Design Futures is published by Fictional. Fictional is a trading name of fictive, an experimental studio researching design, systems, and futures from Milan to everywhere. fictive S.C.Via Mantova 10, 20135 Milano – ItaliaVAT IT01570220531
- [The Authors](https://designfutures.guide/the-authors/): Giovanni Caruso is Head of School of Design, and Course Leader for the Master in Interaction Design and the Master in Service Design at Domus Academy, Milan. He is also Professor of Design Futures and Interaction Design.He holds an International Ph.D. in Audiovisual Studies from the University of Udine.Giovanni is principal at fictive, an experimental studio investigating futures, systems, and strategy through design.He is co-founder of Speculative Futures Milan. Silvio Cioni is Director of Education at Domus Academy, and Professor of Design Futures, Interaction Design, and Design Methodology.He earned a Ph.D. in Information Society from the University of Florence.Silvio is […]
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