Design fictions an introduction and provisional taxonomy

Abstract

This essay introduces the special issue of Digital Creativity on Design Fictions. It is an attempt to grapple with the notion of Design Fictions and considers this a 'speculative turn' within contemporary design practice. It presents Design Fictions as a cluster of problems, rather than offering a single definition of Design Fictions it outlines their 'multidimensionality' to suggests that Design Fictions create a discursive space within which new forms of cultural artefact (futures) might emerge. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.