Dunne and Raby Designs use design to stimulate to discussion and debate. Instead of designing objects that stimulate to behaviour, they design objects that stimulate questions. They work within the field of Critical Design, not meaning that they are negative to everything, anti-consumerist and against design. Their objective is to use critical design in terms of critical thinking and that it is about questioning things and to understand what is behind them.
They develope a design approach that embodies an understanding of the consumer as a complex exhistencial being.
In the project ´Design for personalities in anxious times 2004/2005´they focus on irrational but real anxieties such as fear for alien abduction. Rather than ignoring them, like most design would, or to use them to create paranoia, they treated them as phobias as they were perfectly reasonable and they designed objects to humour their owners.
These objects take in consideration the psychological realisme of people and designs for real problems and for how people really are, rather than for how they are supposed to be.
´Hideaway furniture is for people who are afraid of being abducted. Each opens in a surprising way without disturbing objects displayed on its surface. The poses encourage the occupant to feel in control, proud and comfortable, the opposite of a foetal position. There are three versions.´ Michael Anastassiades
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