critical design summary

Horyun Song

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1 Introduction

Table

2 Preamble

3 Research

4 Conclusion> > >

-HCI, in particular design research and research through design have become central to research activity.

-e.g. experience prototyping, speed dating, cultural probes, interaction criticism, transfer scenarios and magic thing

-Design for change -Cannot depend on prior “comprehensive analysis because it leads to ever great numbers of paths, which then require more analysis.”

Introduction

+ =Critical TheoryCritical Design Designers-is an Approach -seeks to disrupt or

transgress need -provokes

-propose critical strategies -maintain an intellectual

commitment -deploy semiotic strategies

Designers can use it to create designs and prototypes that encourage the public to reason about designs’ participation in socio-cultural norms and structures.

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Critical Design as an Approach to Designing for Change

Preamble

-CT offers little insight about how to make things -CT tends to be anti-method -CT emphasizes the meanings and effects of cultural artefacts over their creation.

-CT generally tends not to focus on the author of a work as an individual creative agent. !!!!

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Critical Theory and Design: Assessing the Fit

Preamble

Whispering WallSignificant Screwdriver

Female: data collect and shareMale: “handyman”

Willing particiaption

Three households

Conversation about counter sexMale: boxing gym

Unnoticed

21-38 male

-Gendering spaces -Provoke traditional idea of gender roles -Two experiments

Research

The Critical Design Process

The Critical Designs in the World

Research

Significant Screwdriver Whispering Wall

Breakdown

-Women rather more involved -Distinct, but not independent +Should have been ambiguous

-Subject intersection

Breakthrough

-Participants asking researchers what they have learned -Destabilize the relationship between researchers and participants -Doing theory together

-Lacked participatns’ awareness

Lesson Learned1. Important to assess provocativeness of critical designs before

field 2. Develop a slow and deep relationship with participants 3. Research plan and expectations must be flexible

-Critical design expends for its success on the experience and expert judgement of the designers.

-Projects reflexive, being provoked and provoking

Conclusion

-Project being Reflexive from the base -> Really? Wobbly? -Curbed as participants wish? -Critical Design as an approach, provoking people. Then what is next step of critical design? Will the designers collect the data or insight?

Critique