Critical Design in Context
eBook - PDF

Critical Design in Context

History, Theory, and Practice

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Critical Design in Context

History, Theory, and Practice

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781350125179
eBook ISBN
9781472575203
Edition
1
Topic
Design
Subtopic
Design General
16
CRITICAL 
DESIGN 
IN 
CONTEXT
In 
Chapter 
6, 
the 
book 
concludes 
by 
describing 
the 
disciplinary 
contribution 
that 
critical 
design 
makes. 
It 
discusses 
the 
constructive 
relationship 
between 
critical 
design 
practice 
and 
mainstream 
design 
practice. 
It 
argues 
how 
critical 
design 
practice 
extends 
the 
scope 
and 
agency 
of 
today’s 
industrial 
designer 
into 
new 
contexts 
of 
operation 
and 
engagement 
and 
how 
this 
creates 
new 
opportunities 
for 
today’s 
product 
and 
industrial 
designers.
The 
book 
places 
critical 
design 
practice 
in 
a 
context 
of 
product 
and 
industrial 
design 
practice. 
It 
places 
critical 
design 
practice 
in 
historic 
context 
and 
discusses 
the 
theoretical 
contexts 
that 
designers 
draw 
from 
and 
position 
the 
work 
in. 
It 
discusses 
the 
contexts 
engendered 
in 
the 
design 
work, 
the 
focus 
of 
critique, 
and 
subjects 
of 
investigation 
undertaken 
through 
critical 
design 
practice. 
It 
discusses 
where 
and 
in 
what 
contexts 
critical 
design 
operates, 
discussing 
how 
and 
by 
what 
methods 
and 
tactics 
critical 
designers 
operate. 
With 
these 
things 
considered, 
the 
following 
chapters 
ultimately 
serve 
to 
contextualize 
critical 
design 
practice 
and 
its 
contribution 
as 
a 
form 
of 
practice.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1 Introducing critical design
  6. 2 History
  7. 3 Theories, methods, and tactics
  8. 4 Criticism, function, and discipline
  9. 5 Practice
  10. 6 Critical design practice and its disciplinary contribution
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index