Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are partners in the design studio Dunne & Raby and Distinguished Visiting Professors at the China Academy of Art. Through design projects and writing, they explore how speculative thought from science, philosophy, and literature can inform and expand design practice. Their books include Not Here, Not Now (2025), Speculative Everything (2013), Design Noir (2001 / 2021), and Hertzian Tales (1999). Their projects are in the permanent collections of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and MAK, Vienna, and their research has been supported by organisations including the European Commission, Wellcome Trust, EPSRC, Arts Council England, Mellon Foundation, and industry partners such as Intel and Microsoft.
From 2016 to 2025, they were University Professors of Design and Social Inquiry at Parsons / The New School in New York, developing practice-led research and project-based teaching approaches that brought design, the humanities, and social sciences into conversation around new forms of interdisciplinary imagining. Between 2005 and 2015, Anthony was Professor and Head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London, and Fiona was Reader in Design Interactions, as well as Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. They received the inaugural MIT Media Lab Award in 2015 and were named Royal Designers for Industry and Life Fellows of the Royal Society in 2021.
From 2016 to 2025, they were University Professors of Design and Social Inquiry at Parsons / The New School in New York, developing practice-led research and project-based teaching approaches that brought design, the humanities, and social sciences into conversation around new forms of interdisciplinary imagining. Between 2005 and 2015, Anthony was Professor and Head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London, and Fiona was Reader in Design Interactions, as well as Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. They received the inaugural MIT Media Lab Award in 2015 and were named Royal Designers for Industry and Life Fellows of the Royal Society in 2021.