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Anthony is University Professor of Design and Social Inquiry and Co-Director of the Designed Realities Studio at The New School. He was a Fellow of the Graduate Institute for Design and Social Thought (GIDEST) from 2016 to 2018, and between 2005-2015 he was professor and head of the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art in London. He is also a partner in the design studio Dunne & Raby. 

Dunne & Raby use design to explore how alternative values, belief systems and ideals can be made tangible through the stuff of everyday life in ways that spark reflection on the kinds of worlds people wish to live in. At The New School, with Fiona Raby, he is developing practice-led research and project based teaching approaches that bring design, the humanities and social sciences into conversation around new forms of interdisciplinary imagining.

Anthony’s research and creative practice has been supported by the European Commission, the Wellcome Trust, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the Arts Council of England, the Mellon Foundation, and industry partners including Intel, Microsoft and Philips.

Dunne & Raby's work has been exhibited at MoMA in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the National Museum of China in Beijing, and the Design Museum in London, and is in a number of public and private collections including MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (MAK). 

www.dunneandraby.co.uk
www.designedrealities.org

Degrees Held

Anthony holds a PhD in Computer Related Design and an M.Des in Industrial Design from the Royal College of Art in London, and a B.Des in Industrial Design from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland.

Professional Affiliation

Recent Publications

He is the author of Hertzian Tales (1999; 2005 second edition, 2002 Korean translation) and co-author, with Fiona Raby, of Design Noir (2001; republished 2021), Speculative Everything (2013; translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Taiwanese and Persian), and Not Here, Not Now (Spring 2025).

Projects include The Placebo Project (2001), Technological Dreams Series: No. 1, Robots (2007), Designs for an Overpopulated Planet: Foragers (2010), The United Micro Kingdoms (2013), The School of Constructed Realities (2015), An Archive of Impossible Objects (2020), and Designs for a World of Many Worlds: After the Festival (2023).

Research Interests

Design as critique; speculative forms of thought in design practice; quantum commonsense; design and the post-humanities.

Awards And Honors

Honorary Life Fellowship (FRSA), Royal Society of Arts, 2022

Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), 2021

Inaugural MIT Media Lab Award, 2015

Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education, 2009