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, 2022 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.
Mareis, Claudia +2 more
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Criticism and Function in Critical Design Practice [PDF]
Design Issues, 2015 This article focuses on critical design as a field of industrial design practice. It considers some barriers and misconceptions to critical design practice being seen as part of a disciplinary project. The first part of the article reviews the criticism of critical design to identify inadequacies in how the criticism is grounded.
Malpass, Matt
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Contextualising Critical Design: Towards a Taxonomy of Critical Practice in Product Design [PDF]
, 2012 This study focuses on critical design practice. The research challenges the colloquial understanding of ‘critical design.’ It problematises, defines and reassesses the concept of ‘critical design’ situating it among other forms of critical design ...
Malpass, Matt
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Introducing ‘Critical Service Design’ [PDF]
, 2023 This article proposes ‘critical service design’ as an innovative and effective alternative approach for service designers who are actively seeking to support and facilitate sustainable and ethical place-based climate ...
Salinas, Lara
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Frontiers in Computer Science, 2023 There is an increased awareness of how the quality of the acoustic environment impacts the lives of human beings. Several studies have shown that sound pollution has adverse effects on many populations, from infants to adults, in different environments ...
Sara Lenzi +3 more
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Performance and critical design
Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference, 2015 Critical design is a powerful methodology for HCI research that contributes to personal benefit and social renewal. We propose performance studies as a way of implementing and extending critical design.
Jocelyn Spence +2 more
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Libro de Actas - Systems & Design: Beyond Processes and Thinking (IFDP - SD2016), 2016 Historically the imaginary and the hegemonic thinking, in the Western North globe has been marked by the epistemology and capitalists archetypes. Notwithstanding the design as a practice and discipline seem shielded on a simplistic discourse of functional / communicative efficiency, wandering through multiple aestheticism apparently neutral in relation
Calejo, Marta +1 more
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Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics, 2019 This paper explains the contemporary Design dynamics and shows how specific design processes influence and modify user behaviour and production narrative in the material culture of a transforming society.
Alexandra Stefana GHIOC +1 more
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Critical design in interaction design and children
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2018 During past years, an increasing interest has been placed on critical design in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and design research communities. Child Computer Interaction (CCI) research community, however, has remained quite silent about these recent developments.
Kuutti Kari, Iivari Netta
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Materialising Norms - Norm-Critical and Speculative Explorations in Design [PDF]
, 2023 Design is increasingly called upon to address some of the acute issues of our time, such as social inequalities and climate change. While 'critical design' has claimed to address the concerns of design driving consumerism during the last two decades, it ...
Andersson, Camilla
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