Not Here, Not Now

Join us at Salotto for an evening exploring design’s capacity to imagine the impossible.

At a time when the future feels uncertain and unreachable, this event looks at how design can open up new forms of thought, empathy, and resistance by engaging with what does not yet, or may never, exist. 

Dunne & Raby have published a new book roughly every ten years, each one pushing what design can be and inspiring a new generation of designers to critically reflect on their practice. 

In between these publications, they have been teaching, researching, and experimenting with ways to embody alternative, improbable, and provocative realities.

In Not Here, Not Now (2025 MIT Press), they ask what it means to design when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility. The book explores multiple definitions of reality, impossible objects, quantum common sense, and the transformative potential of impossible ideas.

The conversation will feature Anthony Dunne (Professor of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School/Parsons) and Marco Zamarato (Google Research | Under Over Through), reflecting on design imagination and the notion of soft infrastructures for a hard world.

→ Dunne & Raby

→ Anthony Dunne IG

→ Marco Zamarato

→ Salotto

→ Salotto IG