Critical by Design?: Genealogies, Practices, Positions

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Critical by Design?

Genealogies, Practices, Positions

Edited by: Claudia Mareis , Moritz Greiner-Petter and Michael Renner

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Volume 57 | Design

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»Critical by Design?« questions and unpacks the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.

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Mareis Claudia :

Claudia Mareis (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1974, ist Designerin und Designwissenschaftlerin. Seit 2013 ist sie Professorin für Designtheorie und Leiterin des Instituts Experimentelle Design- und Medienkulturen an der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW Basel.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	4
Introduction
Critical by design? An introduction Claudia Mareis, Moritz Greiner-Petter and Michael Renner Open Access Download PDF	8
Genealogies
What is a critical object? Design as «desubjugation» (after Foucault) Annette Geiger Open Access Download PDF	32
The vitality of the negative: critical design between social philosophy and conceptual art Emanuele Quinz Open Access Download PDF	50
Ask what can be! Modal critique and design as drivers of accidence Bruno Gransche Open Access Download PDF	64
What are the politics of ontological design? A critical reflection on the mutual becoming of «the human» and «the world» Michaela Büsse Open Access Download PDF	80
Engaging in epistemic disobedience: on the decolonialization of design discourses Mara Recklies Open Access Download PDF	94
Practices
Unsettling individualized design practice through collaboration Anja Groten Open Access Download PDF	110
«Ci concimiamo a vicenda»: building support structures as part of design practice Bianca Elzenbaumer and Meike Hardt Open Access Download PDF	124
Re-visioning pelvic care through design Patrycja Zdziarska, Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell Open Access Download PDF	140
Trojan horses: ambiguity as a critical design strategy Emile De Visscher Open Access Download PDF	162
Grey design: critical practices of design at the peripheries of the discipline Moritz Greiner-Petter Open Access Download PDF	182
Positions
The ineliminable aesthetic dimension of art Janneke Wesseling Open Access Download PDF	194
Design culture as critical practice Guy Julier Open Access Download PDF	212
What might be the speculative social? Carl DiSalvo Open Access Download PDF	230
Biased design, or the misery of neutrality Jesko Fezer Open Access Download PDF	248
Undesign and understanding Björn Franke Open Access Download PDF	268
Epilogue
The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital Matt Ward Open Access Download PDF	286
Appendix
Critical by design? The book's design as SF figures Marius Förster and Meike Hardt Open Access Download PDF	306
List of Figures & Tables Open Access Download PDF	316
Biographies Open Access Download PDF	318
Imprint Open Access Download PDF	330

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February 3, 2022

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9783839461044

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332

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Design; Design; Critical Design; Critical Design; Design Politics; Design Politics; Critical Theory; Critical Theory; Material Culture; Material Culture; Cultural Theory; Cultural Theory; Theory of Art; Theory of Art

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