Mr Derek Hales' Outputs (7)

The Cacheian Objectile: design fictions of the furnishing of territories (2025)
Journal Article

The Architect and Designer Bernard Cache suggested a renewed need to pursue the concept of technical objects as ‘objectile’ by philosophical rather than architectural means, reversing an earlier dedication to pursuing architecture by other (i.e. phil... Read More about The Cacheian Objectile: design fictions of the furnishing of territories.

Playful Science Engagement and Interactive Interpretation Prototyping: An Exploratory Study for the Science and Industry Museum (2024)
Thesis

Facilitating playful, informal learning about scientific subjects is both a rising and challenging area of research. Science museum settings offer an interesting opportunity to study this topic through the perspective of visitor engagement with STEM... Read More about Playful Science Engagement and Interactive Interpretation Prototyping: An Exploratory Study for the Science and Industry Museum.

Design fictions from beyond: a pataphysics of objectile excess (2021)
Book Chapter
Hales, D. (2021). Design fictions from beyond: a pataphysics of objectile excess. In J. Brassett, & R. Reynolds (Eds.), Superheroes and Excess: A Philosophical Adventure. Routledge

The anticipatory power of the objectile (2021)
Book Chapter
Hales, D. (2021). The anticipatory power of the objectile. In J. Brassett, & J. O'Reilly (Eds.), A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367234591

In the literature emerging from the field of anticipation studies there are expressions of that confluence of design and futurological practices which can be caricatured as speculative. Less present is a related encounter with the notion of ‘anticipa... Read More about The anticipatory power of the objectile.

A certain breakthrough (2016)
Journal Article
Hales, D. (2016). A certain breakthrough. Digital Creativity, 27(2), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2015.1119551

Redesigning the objectile (2015)
Book Chapter

Design fictions an introduction and provisional taxonomy (2013)
Journal Article
Hales, D. (2013). Design fictions an introduction and provisional taxonomy. Digital Creativity, 24(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2013.769453

This essay introduces the special issue of Digital Creativity on Design Fictions. It is an attempt to grapple with the notion of Design Fictions and considers this a ‘speculative turn’ within contemporary design practice. It presents Design Fictions... Read More about Design fictions an introduction and provisional taxonomy.