Critical Design
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Speculative practitioners symposium at the AA
A note on the AA School’s symposium on speculative practitioners, bringing in gaming, film, comics, animation, literature and art as alternative models and test sites for architectural imagining.
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Boelen on critical design’s gimmick problem
A note on Jan Boelen’s argument that when journalists cover Guixé, Bey or Dunne & Raby they tend to pick out the gimmick side of the work and miss the global vision, and that an international crowd has grown up imitating that gimmicky surface. Via we-make-money-not-art.
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What is critical design?
Critical Design uses speculative design proposals to challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions and givens about the role products play in everyday life. It is more of an attitude than anything else, a position rather than a method. There are many people doing this who have never heard of the term critical design and who have their own way of describing what they do. Naming it Critical Design is simply a useful way of making this activity more visible and subject to discussion and debate.