# Critical Design

> 3 posts tagged Critical Design on Timo Arnall's site, 2009: Speculative practitioners symposium at the AA; Boelen on critical design’s gimmick problem…

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- [Speculative practitioners symposium at the AA](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/07/136379760/) (2009): A note on the AA School's symposium bringing together gaming, film, comics, animation, literature and art as test sites for architectural imagination.
- [Boelen on critical design’s gimmick problem](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/128192274/) (2009): Jan Boelen on how journalists covering Guixé, Bey and Dunne & Raby tend to pick out the gimmick and miss the designers' underlying vision.
- [What is critical design?](https://www.elasticspace.com/2009/06/128200038/) (2009): A short working definition of critical design: speculative proposals that challenge preconceptions about the role of products in everyday life.