Critical Design as Constructive Provocation

• A critical design has many faces
• In the borderland between art and design
• It might cause a number of big issues
• Critical design is aimed at questioning the present conditions as opposed to fixing problems
• Access to a wider audience
• Make the invisible visible
• Tool/constructive provocation
• Challenging views
• Provocation to think outside box

What is Critical Design?

• Speculative
• Challenge assumptions
• Prompts discussion and debate
• Opposite form
• Affirmative design
• Psychological/trigger emotions shift points of view
• Impact of technology
• Social change
• Political/social
• 90% humor and 10% critical