Critical by Design?: Genealogies, Practices, Positions

ISBN-13: 9783837661040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Claudia Mareis;Moritz Greiner-Petter;Michael Renner

Opis

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.

O autorze

Mareis, ClaudiaClaudia Mareis (Prof. Dr.) is a design researcher and cultural historian. Since 2021, she has been a professor of design and history of knowledge at the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she is also the co-director of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material«. Besides, she is a lecturer at the Institute for Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW in Basel. Her research interests include history, theory and methodology of design in the 20th century, knowledge cultures in design, experimental design and media practices, cultural history of creativity, and design and material politics.