| Critical Design in Context: History, Theory, and Practice Contributor(s): Malpass, Matt (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350125172 ISBN-13: 9781350125179 Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | History & Criticism - Design | Industrial - Design | Product |
| Dewey: 745.4 |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.60 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. |