Critical by Design?
Genealogies, Practices, Positions
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 3 -
Contents
Seiten 4 - 7 -
Introduction
Critical by design? An introduction
Seiten 8 - 31 -
Genealogies
What is a critical object? Design as «desubjugation» (after Foucault)
Seiten 32 - 49 -
The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art
Seiten 50 - 63 -
Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence
Seiten 64 - 79 -
What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of «the human» and «the world»
Seiten 80 - 93 -
Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses
Seiten 94 - 109 -
Practices
Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration
Seiten 110 - 123 -
«Ci concimiamo a vicenda»: building support structures as part of design practice
Seiten 124 - 139 -
Re-visioning pelvic care through design
Seiten 140 - 161 -
Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy
Seiten 162 - 181 -
Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline
Seiten 182 - 193 -
Positions
The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art
Seiten 194 - 211 -
Design culture as critical practice
Seiten 212 - 229 -
What might be the speculative social?
Seiten 230 - 247 -
Biased design, or the misery of neutrality
Seiten 248 - 267 -
Undesign and understanding
Seiten 268 - 285 -
Epilogue
The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital
Seiten 286 - 305 -
Appendix
Critical by design? The book's design as SF figures
Seiten 306 - 315 -
List of Figures & Tables
Seiten 316 - 317 -
Biographies
Seiten 318 - 329 -
Imprint
Seiten 330 - 332
29 March 2022, 332 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6104-0
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