SPECULATIVE & CRITICAL DESIGN

Catalog description

This course examines and applies the principles of design as a critical and discursive research practice. Objects are important but design has the opportunity for intellectual service. Discursive design's primary agenda is to convey ideas. It asks its audience to take an anthropological gaze and seek understanding of its artifacts beyond basic form and utility. The course explore how and why discursive design is more important than ever while investigating its evolution from radical design, speculative and critical design, and design fiction. Students will engage in research driven design projects that culminate in a public exhibition of discursive designs. 001886