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This publication offers a critical assessment of the complicity of design in creating, perpetuating, and reinforcing social, political, and environmental problems, both today and in the past. It proposes going against the grain by problematising Western notions of design to foster situated, decolonial, and queer-feminist modes of disciplinary self-critique, and looks at design through the intersections of gender, culture, ethnicity, and class. Applying robust scholarly insight with engaging and accessible modes of conveyance and storytelling, an urgent and expansive array of voices and views emerge from those engaged in struggles with, against, or around the field of design.

Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- design [discipline] --- racial discrimination --- feminism --- art criticism --- graphic arts --- #breakthecanon --- Design and history. --- Design --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Design and history --- 770.6 --- ontwerpmethodiek --- ecologie --- sustainable design --- 905.2 --- design research --- LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and others) --- 771 --- designtheorie --- ontwerpprincipes --- storytelling --- History and design --- History --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- productdesign, filosofie, esthetiek en kritiek --- cultuurfilosofie, -psychologie en -sociologie --- productdesign, geschiedenis algemeen --- 7.011 --- Kunst en maatschappijkritiek --- Dekolonisatie --- Feminisme --- Gender en diversiteit --- Ecologisch design --- Intersectionaliteit ; kruispuntdenken --- Design ; ontwerptheorie --- Design ; sociale aspecten --- Kunst ; ontwerp, compositie --- design --- 373.67 --- productdesign --- kunstonderwijs --- designonderwijs --- 745.01 --- activisme --- homoseksualiteit --- gender studies --- feminisme --- postkolonialisme --- design en politiek --- social design --- dekolonisatie --- pedagogiek --- cultuurfilosofie --- Graphic arts

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In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence the field of design, question inherent blind spots of the discipline, and expand understandings of what critical design practices could be.With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, »Critical by Design?« aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.

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Surrealism expanded our reality by drawing upon myths, dreams, and the subconscious as sources of artistic inspiration. Beginning in the 1930s, the movement made a crucial impact on design, and it continues to inspire designers to this day. "Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design" is the first book to document this fascinating conversation. It includes numerous essays and a comprehensive selection of images which traces these reciprocal exchanges by juxtaposing exemplary artworks and design objects. Among the featured artists and designers are Gae Aulenti, Achille Castiglioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Le Corbusier, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Antoni Gaudí, Frederick Kiesler, René Magritte, Carlo Mollino, Meret Oppenheim, and many others. The book is rounded off with historical text material as well as short texts and statements by contemporary designers. This in-depth examination makes one thing abundantly clear: form does not always follow function--it can also follow our obsessions, our fantasies, and our hidden desires.

Surrealism --- Surrealism and design --- Surrealist artists --- Arts, Modern --- Design --- History

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Are there differences between design practice and the practice of design research? What alliances between text and artefact are possible in the search for new knowledge? How does design research translate and transform theories and methods from other disciplines? Is design research moving towards becoming a formal discipline and, if so, would this really be an advantage? 16 international authors address these four different aspects in the form of personal statements, and 19 researchers share their reflections based on their experience of having carried out a practice-based PhD. This book investigates the status quo of things in the multi-faceted and constantly evolving field of design research, and outlines the elementary issues faced by researchers. The compendium is a survey of a fast-growing field and, at the same time, provides pointers for personal orientation. With statements from: Uta Brandes, Rachel Cooper, Clive Dilnot, Michael Erlhoff, Alain Findeli, Bill Gaver, Ranulph Glanville, Matthias Held, Wolfgang Jonas, Klaus Krippendorff, Claudia Mareis, Mike Press, Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders, Arne Scheuermann, Cameron Tonkinwise, Brigitte Wolf. Gibt es Differenzen zwischen Designpraxis und Designforschungspraxis? Welche Allianzen zwischen Text und Artefakt sind auf der Suche nach neuem Wissen möglich? Wie werden Theorien und Methoden aus anderen Disziplinen durch die Designforschung übersetzt und transformiert? Begibt sich die Designforschung auf den Weg zu einer formalen Disziplin, und wäre dies überhaupt ein Gewinn? 16 internationale Autor/innen widmen sich in persönlichen Stellungnahmen diesen vier Aspekten, und 19 Forscher/innen schildern Betrachtungen, basierend auf Erfahrungen, die sie durch das Absolvieren ihres praxisbasierten PhD sammeln konnten. Dieses Buch fragt nach dem aktuellen Stand der Dinge in dem vielfältigen und im ständigen Wandel begriffenen Feld der Designforschung und skizziert die Grundfragen der forschenden Praxis. Das Kompendium ist die Bestandsaufnahme eines schnell wachsenden Bereiches und zugleich ein Kompass zur persönlichen Orientierung. Mit Stellungnahmen von: Uta Brandes, Rachel Cooper, Clive Dilnot, Michael Erlhoff, Alain Findeli, Bill Gaver, Ranulph Glanville, Matthias Held, Wolfgang Jonas, Klaus Krippendorff, Claudia Mareis, Mike Press, Elizabeth B.-N. Sanders, Arne Scheuermann, Cameron Tonkinwise, Brigitte Wolf.

Production management --- Architectural design --- Methodology. --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- decorative arts [discipline] --- design [discipline] --- onderzoek in de kunsten