From the product to the object. The speculative design practice as instance.

Switching from the function-object to the speculative-object transforms the meaning of the object, in so far as it is no longer a passive element of the discourse, but the triggering actor of an embodied reflexive process. In this perspective, the object transforms itself, from a functioning commodity to an open minded "thing" full of meaning. (Bodei, 2009). Understanding it as a device of thought, the speculative-object, becomes the narrating subject for a cultural reflection on humankind and it definitively changes its ontological status. (Harman, 2018). It imposes itself as a cognitive trigger of emancipation compared to a predeterminated thought, toward a deconstructive logic that does not give absolute solutions. In this context, the designer transforms himself from the one who solves problems (problem solver) to the one who identifies problems (problem-finder), through an investigative approach oriented towards evolving scenarios. Speculative objects therefore connect subject and thought and the more they exhort a disruptive vision, the more they demonstrate their intrinsic capacity to produce change.