Fiona Raby
Fiona Raby (born 1963) is a British artist and educator.
Fiona is Professor of Design and Emerging Technology and a Fellow of the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School in New York. She is also Professor of Industrial Design (id2) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and was Reader in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art between 2005-2015. She studied Architecture at the RCA before working for Kei'ichi Irie Architects in Tokyo. She also holds an MPhil in Computer Related Design from the RCA. She was a founding member of the CRD Research Studio where she worked as a Senior Research Fellow leading externally funded research projects. She taught in the Architecture department for over 13 years leading ADS 4.
Fiona has a creative partnership with Anthony Dunne - Dunne & Raby. They are the authors of Hertzian Tales (CRD Research, 1999, MIT Press, 2005), of Design Noir (Birkhauser, 2001) and Speculative Everything (MIT Press, 2013). Projects include Technological Dream Series, No 1: Robots (2007), Designs For An Over Populated Planet: Foragers (2010), The United Micro Kingdoms (2013) and The School of Constructed Realities (2015).
Their work has been exhibited at MoMA, NYC, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and the Design Museum in London, and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Frac Ile-de-France, Fnac and the MAK as well as several private collections.
In 2015 Dunne & Raby received the first MIT Media Lab Award.
