Critical By Design Genealogies Practices Positions Claudia Mareis Editor Moritz Greinerpetter Editor Michael Renner Editor Swiss National Science Foundation Snsf Editor by Claudia Mareis (editor); Moritz Greiner-petter (editor); Michael Renner (editor); Swiss National Science Foundation (snsf) (editor) 9783839461044, 3839461049 instant download after payment.

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.