Malpass, MatthewUnknown
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (London, 2018) (eng) English9781474293822Unknown1st ed.INDUSTRIAL DESIGN; Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-147) and index; 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.
Physical dimension
1 online resource (xiv, 153 p.)Unknownill.
Summary / review / table of contents
Front matter
1. Introducing Critical Design 1–16
2. History 17–40
3. Theories, Methods, and Tactics 41–70
4. Criticism, Function, and Discipline 71–90
5. Practice 91–122
6. Critical Design Practice and Its Disciplinary Contribution 123–132
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