| Critical Design in Context: History, Theory, and Practice Contributor(s): Malpass, Matt (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472575180 ISBN-13: 9781472575180 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | History & Criticism - Design | Product - Design | Industrial |
| Dewey: 745.4 |
| LCCN: 2016029739 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (0.95 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Malpass, Matt: - Matt Malpass is a Senior lecturer on MA Industrial Design and a Research Fellow in Critical Design at Central Saint Martin's College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London. His research interests and practice focus on critical and socially responsive forms of design and design-led social innovation. |