Design Fiction

"Design Fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change" 

- Bruce Sterling, Wired Magazine, 2013

Design Fiction can be defined as a part of speculative design which also is embedded into Critical Design. These departments can also overlap.

Design Fiction heavily relies on the "What if?" questions. It also often reflect on the present and how we want to live in the future.

Diegetic Prototypes are the most used tools for illustrating Design Fiction. They help to provoke debates and discussions.

There is a constant cycle between science fiction (→ design fiction) and research. While science fiction may inspire researches to explore a new field of knowledge, the findings of a research paper offer new materials for science fiction.