Fiona Raby (born 1963) is a British artist and University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at

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. She served as professor of

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at the

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. She was also a member of the research and teaching staff at the

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(RCA) from 1994 to 2015. She left to focus on her partnership with

Dunne & Raby Dunne & Raby is a London-based design studio established 1994. Dunne & Raby uses design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of current and eme ...

. Her work, in collaboration with partner

Anthony Dunne Anthony Dunne is a critical designer, educator and founder of the art group Dunne & Raby, Dunne and Raby. He runs the studio with his long term partner and collaborator Fiona Raby. He was a reader at the Royal College of Art Design Interactions d ...

, is part of the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) permanent collection. Dunne & Raby are known for a practice of design referred to as speculative design, which they championed across education and within the design field. She studied Architecture at the RCA, before completing an

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in Computer Related Design (CRD) at the RCA. She is one of the founding members of the CRD Research Studio at RCA. In 2001, she was shortlisted for the Perrier-Jouet design prize. With partner Anthony Dunne, Fiona moved their teaching practice from the

(RCA) to Parsons in New York. The duo have been appointed professors of Design and Emerging Technology at The New School, which encompasses Parsons School of Design.

Publications

* Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby,''Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects'', Basel: Birkhäuser, 2001. . * Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, 'Between Reality and the Impossible' In: ''Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étiennne'' 2010. Cité du Design Éditions, Saint-Étienne, France, pp. 129–153. * Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, ''Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming'', The MIT Press, 2013. . * Paola Antonelli, Emma Dexter, Fiona Raby, Iwona Blazwick, ''Darkitecture: Learning Architecture for the Twenty-First Century'' Two Little Boys, 2013.

References

External links

* Raby'
Page in the archive of research processes and output produced by RCA
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raby, Fiona Academics of the Royal College of Art Alumni of the Royal College of Art Critical design practitioners British industrial designers Product designers Living people 1963 births Royal Designers for Industry