critical design summary
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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