Critical by design : genealogies practices positions Frontmatter Contents Introduction Critical by design An introduction Genealogies What is a critical object Design as «desubjugation» (after Foucault) The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence What are the politics of ontological design A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of «the human» and «the world» Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses Practices Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration «Ci concimiamo a vicenda»: building support structures as part of design practice Re visioning pelvic care through design Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline Positions The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art Design culture as critical practice What might be the speculative social Biased design or the misery of neutrality Undesign and understanding Epilogue The life and death of critical and speculative design: post disciplinarity post truth post self and post capital Appendix Critical by design The books design as SF figures List of Figures & Tables Biographies Imprint In its constructive and speculative nature design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio material realities. At the same time design is inevitably normative if not often violent as it stabilises the past normalises the present and precludes just and sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence the field of design question inherent blind spots of the discipline and expand understandings of what critical design practices could be.With contributions from design theory practice and education art theory philosophy and informatics »Critical by Design« aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique