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Critical design uses design fiction and speculative design proposals to challenge assumptions and conceptions about the role objects play in everyday life. Critical design plays a similar role to product design, but does not emphasize an object's commercial purpose or physical utility. It is mainly used to share a critical perspective or inspire debate,[1] while increasing awareness of social, cultural, or ethical issues in the eyes of the public. Critical design was popularized by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby through their firm, Dunne & Raby.
Critical design can make aspects of the future physically present to provoke a reaction.[2] "Critical design is critical thought translated into materiality. It is about thinking through design rather than through words and using the language and structure of design to engage people."[3]
It may be conflated with the critical theory or the Frankfurt School, but it is not related.
^Malpass, Matt (2013). "Between Wit and Reason: Defining Associative, Speculative, and Critical Design in Practice". Design and Culture. 5:3, 333–356.
^Tonkinwise, Cameron (1 December 2014). "How We Intend to Future: Review of Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming". Design Philosophy Papers. 12 (2): 169–187. doi:10.2752/144871314X14159818597676. S2CID 143531152.
^Dunne, Anthony; Raby, Fiona (6 December 2013). Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01984-2. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
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