Fiona Raby

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Fiona Raby (* 1963 in Singapore ) is a British artist and former professor of industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , where she succeeded Hartmut Esslinger from 2012 to 2015 . She also worked as a reader at London's Royal College of Art from 1994 to 2015 . Together with Anthony Dunne she founded the Studio Dunne & Raby . Her works, which were created together with Dunne, belong to the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art .

Fiona Raby studied architecture at the Birmingham School of Architecture, then at the Royal College of Art, and also completed her degree in Computer Related Design there. She worked on issues related to the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and evolving technologies and participated in the first survey exhibition on British design in 1993 under the direction of Helmut Diez . After completing her studies, she worked for Kei'ichi Irie Architects in Tokyo , worked with Pierre d'Avoine on Japanese “outdoor furniture”, took part in exhibitions at the Moma and the Center Pompidou in Paris, as well as in the Design Museum in London. Dunne and Raby are founding members of the Computer Related Design Studio at the Royal College of Arts.

In 2015, Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunne received the first Media Lab Award for their critical design and its overlap with science, technology, art and the humanities, which, according to the lenders, has changed the educational and practical side of design worldwide.

Works (selection)

  • with Anthony Dunne: Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects , August / Birkhäuser, Basel 2001. ( online , PDF) ISBN 978-3-7643-6566-0 .
  • with Anthony Dunne: What If ... Future Form, Future Function? , Science Gallery Trinity College, Dublin 2010.
  • with Anthony Dunne: Between Reality and the Impossible , in: Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne , Saint-Étienne 2010, pp. 129–153. ISBN 978-2-912808-40-0
  • with Anthony Dunne: Speculative Everything. Design, Fiction and Social Dreaming , The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, Cambridge / Mass. and London 2013. ISBN 978-0-2620-1984-2 .
  • with Paola Antonelli, Emma Dexter, Iwona Blazwick: Darkitecture: Learning Architecture for the Twenty-First Century , Two Little Boys, 2013. ISBN 978-0-957429-90-1

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Anne-Mie Devolder: The public garden. The enclosure and disclosure of the public garden , 2002, p. 120.
  2. ↑ "I'm surprised how exotic it gets here" , in: Der Standard , April 10, 2012.
  3. ^ Fiona Raby , Moma's website.
  4. ↑ Blueprint 93-98 (1993), p. 108; Modo 147-153 (1993), p. 6.
  5. ^ Art. Tony Dunne, Fiona Raby , in: In the swim. An exhibition of creative design from the British European Design Group , DesignLabor Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven 1993, o. P.
  6. ^ Introducing the Lab Award , MIT Media Lab.
personal data
SURNAME Raby, Fiona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist, industrial designer and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore