Technological Dreams
Ring and Neurotic One, 2007
Dunn & Raby
Dunne & Raby's speculative proposal imagines the potential role of robots in our future lives. Rather than performing tasks in the home and being efficient machines, Technological Dreams suggests that these new cohabitants will evolve to respond to our emotional needs. Robot 4, for example, is a needy machine. It is smart but trapped in an underdeveloped body and depends on its owner to move it about. Neediness, in this case, is designed into the technology to maintain the feeling that we are in control.
[Design Museum]
Part of the ‘home of the future’
Home Futures
(November 2018 to March 2019)
...a series of dreamlike passages and rooms designed by New York-based architects SO-IL and explore yesterday’s visions of the future – as avant-garde speculations are displayed alongside contemporary objects and new commissions.
...more than 200 objects and experiences to trace the key social and technological aspirations that have driven change in the home. Historical notions of the mechanised home and the compact home are displayed alongside contemporary phenomena such as connected devices and the sharing economy.
[Design Museum]
Technological Dreams
Ring and Neurotic One, 2007
Dunn & Raby
Dunne & Raby's speculative proposal imagines the potential role of robots in our future lives. Rather than performing tasks in the home and being efficient machines, Technological Dreams suggests that these new cohabitants will evolve to respond to our emotional needs. Robot 4, for example, is a needy machine. It is smart but trapped in an underdeveloped body and depends on its owner to move it about. Neediness, in this case, is designed into the technology to maintain the feeling that we are in control.
[Design Museum]
Part of the ‘home of the future’
Home Futures
(November 2018 to March 2019)
...a series of dreamlike passages and rooms designed by New York-based architects SO-IL and explore yesterday’s visions of the future – as avant-garde speculations are displayed alongside contemporary objects and new commissions.
...more than 200 objects and experiences to trace the key social and technological aspirations that have driven change in the home. Historical notions of the mechanised home and the compact home are displayed alongside contemporary phenomena such as connected devices and the sharing economy.
[Design Museum]