Critical Design in Context

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.