The Ultimate Measure of Success for Speculative Design is to Disappear Completely

In this paper, we discuss how the increasing prevalence of Speculative Design in educational, research and commercial contexts may reflect nurture a challenge to dominance ‘scientism’. The successes associated with 20th-century modernism are now, 21st-century, key factors intractability complexity 21st-century challenges. Design-led approaches offer practical means break down such but do so over relatively short timeframes. We argue that, if adopt longer-term perspective, then disrupting scientism that benefits ‘built in’ rather than ‘added on’ is realistic desirable. exploring proposition, come reason ultimate measure Design’s success disappear completely.