Critical design in context
Subtitle: history, theory, and practices
By: Matt Malpass
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781472575173; 9781472575180
Subjects: Social aspects; Philosophy; Design
Description: "Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields. Matt Malpass's book is the first to introduce critical design as a field, providing a history of the discipline, outlining its key influences, theories and approaches, and explaining how critical design can work in practice through a range of contemporary examples. Critical Design moves away from traditional approaches that limit design's role to the production of profitable objects, focusing instead on a practice that is interrogative, discursive and experimental. Using a wide range of examples from contemporary practice, and drawing on interviews with key practitioners, Matt Malpass provides an introduction to critical design practice and a manifesto for how a radical and unorthodox practice might provide design answers in an age of austerity and ecological crisis"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introducing critical design; title: Challenging orthodoxy; title: Challenging colloquialism: the problem with critical design; title: What's so critical about critical design practice; title: Why study critical design?; title: Researching critical design practice; title: 'Critical' in critical design practice; title: Industrial design as a discipline; title: The structure and approach to writing; title: 2. History; title: A forgotten history of critical design practice; title: An emerging critical design practice; title: Challenging hegemony; title: Anti-design; title: Participatory design; title: Unikat Design: adding nothing but the concept; title: Representative design; title: Design Interactions; title: Critical Design at the Royal College of Art; title: Synergies between precedents and contemporary examples of critical design; title: 3. Theories, methods, and tactics; title: Design as a medium for inquiry; title: Post-optimal design and para-functionality; title: Rhetorical use; title: Discursive design; title: The aesthetics of use and meaningful presence; title: Exploratory potential; title: Design fiction; title: Speculation and proposition; title: Constructing publics; title: Ambiguity; title: Satire; title: 4. Criticism, function, and discipline; title: Design Art; title: Design art and society; title: Function in critical design practice; title: The paradox of critical design in commercial use; title: Modelling the field; title: Design at users; title: Directing critique through design practice; title: 5. Practice; title: Associative design; title: Speculative design; title: Critical design; title: Design practice as satire; title: The uses of narrative; title: Rationality and ambiguity; title: Towards a taxonomy of critical practices in design; title: The taxonomy as an analytical tool; title: Applications of the taxonomy; title: 6. Critical design practice and its disciplinary contribution; title: Summary; title: Challenging disciplinary orthodoxy; title: An extended role for industrial design: discipline, science, and society.