Matt Malpass

Critical Design in Context (eBook, PDF)

History, Theory, and Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472575203
• Artikelnr.: 47385702

Autorenporträt

Matt Malpass is a Senior lecturer on MA Industrial Design and a Research Fellow in Critical Design at Central Saint Martin's College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London. His research interests and practice focus on critical and socially responsive forms of design and design-led social innovation.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introducing critical design Challenging orthodoxy Challenging
colloquialism: the problem with critical design What's so critical about
critical design practice Why study critical design? Researching critical
design practice 'Critical' in critical design practice Industrial design as
a discipline The structure and approach to writing Chapter 2: History A
forgotten history of critical design practice An emerging critical design
practice Challenging hegemony Anti-design Participatory design Unikat
Design: adding nothing but the concept Representative design Design
Interactions Critical Design at the Royal College of Art Synergies between
precedents and contemporary examples of critical design Chapter 3:
Theories, methods and tactics Design as a medium for inquiry Post-optimal
design and Para-functionality Rhetorical use Discursive design The
aesthetics of use and meaningful presence Exploratory potential Design
fiction Speculation and proposition Constructing publics Ambiguity Chapter
4: Criticism, function and discipline Design Art Design art and society
Function in critical design practice The paradox of critical design in
commercial use Modelling the field Design at users Directing critique
through design practice Chapter 5: Practice Associative design Speculative
design Critical design Design practice as satire The uses of narrative
Rationality and ambiguity Towards a taxonomy of critical practices in
design The taxonomy as an analytical tool Applications of the taxonomy
Chapter 6: Critical design practice and its disciplinary contribution
Summary Challenging disciplinary orthodoxy An extended role for industrial
design: discipline, science and society Bibliography