Critical design

Critical design

Critical design was originally conceited in the 1970s by Italian radical designers aiming towards acting out against the normal social ideologies and cultural shift on social and political values, The ideas were present for a few decades until the late 1990s when the term critical design was first used and pioneered officially by Anthony Dunne (Hertzian Tales (1999).

The idea of radically changing how designers think by focusing on speculation, this changes the way a person thinks, designs and problems solves for social and cultural movements due the political style of addressing economic issues that can be constructed to by the designer through visual media where a conceptual design can be used to open debate and question social norms towards the current climate of growing culture, communication and by creating alternative ways of solving problems that would create a non linear of way rationalization ideas.

The focus of critical design is to open critique towards social concerns and economic structures, design can be used to integrate multiple forms of research and conceptualization to address the issues surrounding the current situations in cultural advancement.

The purpose is to challenge audiences by providing fictional alternative scenarios to give us an idea of how things could be different in the present and how things could be different in our alternative future, if we challenged the way we think about our existing paradigms and debated the forms and traditions currently being used raise questions about expectations.

Rereference

"Dunne & Raby". Dunneandraby.co.uk. N.p., 2017. Web. 24 Apr. 2017.

Dunne, Anthonny (1999). Hertzian tales : electronic products, aesthetic experience and critical design. London: Royal College of Art computer related design research studio