Critical Design in Context
History, Theory, and Practice
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, General Art, Criticism, Graphic Art & Design, General Design
| Author: | Matt Malpass | ISBN: | 9781472575197 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing | Publication: | February 23, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic | Language: | English |
| Author: | Matt Malpass |
| ISBN: | 9781472575197 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication: | February 23, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
