Fauxbia Collective, a group of 8 designers critique the line between real and fake through an anthology of projects. Fake Fiction challenges perceptions using sensorial experiences, production methods, and political narratives at Dutch Design Week 2024.
To Be Real
Fake and real are far end spectrums in design that encompass and dictate value. Production of culture mirrors cultural production, material, or narrative. Although, production has reached a boiling point beyond which it is starting to produce fakeness. Navigating alternative ways of being, across dystopian controversies. Pushing humanity to pursue the delusional production of fiction. As Fauxbia Collective, we position our practice within the boundaries of contextual conditions and their constraining effects. For DDW 2024, Fake Fiction explores fakeness as a conceptual lens to investigate and criticise the new and alternative realities of cultural and material production. We will adopt time as a design variable, mirroring the industrial structure which maximises production and material output.
Until All is Fake
A material inquiry into mappings of manipulated waterways due to Industrialisation. Followed by a production methodology probing mass replication of defective goods until they produce a ‘new’ object and faux reproductions of everyday objects that question fixed functionality. From a sensorial perspective, an interrogation into the perception of the real is initiated through creating fake images. Another questions the processing of bodily data by replicating synthetic information. The political aspect of fakeness will be introduced from its imposing and manipulative layers. A display of faux artifacts will question the unification of a country. And the production of fake news and warfare tactics will reveal the oppressive side of artificiality. The anthology of eight projects will deconstruct the complexities of production through production methods, sensorial experiences, and political narratives.
