Critical and Future Concepts

Estudos Contemporâneos em Design
Docente: Vitor Almeida

Exercício: Plataforma Galexica

Pretende-se que os alunos nas unidades curriculares de Estudos Contemporâneos em Design e Laboratório dos Novos Media I desenvolvam uma plataforma online de conteúdos académicos relacionados com o universo do design crítico. Tomou-se como ponto de partida o mapeamento atomizado das palavras-chave que integram o manifesto A/B, de Anthony Dunne e Fiona Raby. Em abstracto, todas as palavras se constituem como um vasto campo de referências textuais, imagéticas, políticas, em suma, culturais, acessíveis através da hipertextualidade da primeira janela contextual de significação conceptual (S). A(s) palavra(s) de investigação, a retirar do manifesto A/B, de acordo com os interesses académicos do aluno, corresponde(m), assim, a inclinações temáticas em construção no mestrado de design de comunicação e novos media com o intuito de servirem a investigação futura. Espera-se que a escolha desencadeie uma pesquisa profícua sobre a natureza crítica do design e da sua vestente especulativa. A investigação deverá ser pautada por uma recolha fina de referências e pelo diálogo que cada aluno deve procurar estabelecer com outros colegas cujas palavras possam estar na mesma esteira conceptual. Esta interacção deve ser estimulada para que todos possam colaborar uns com os outros, num sistema mutualista onde todos dependem de todos para a qualificação da plataforma.

Fase 1—Estruturação da informação

Critical concept

Critical Design

What is critical design?, Don’t Panic – Roger Ibars

Critical Design FAQ – Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

Towards Critical Autonomy or Can Graphic Design Save itself? – Andrew Blauvelt

“Another Open Letter”, Stuart Bailey, Dot Dot Dot 20

“Fuck Content”, Michael Rock, from Graphic Design: Now in Production

The Word of Task, Andrew Blauvelt

Observer: Critical Omissions, Rick Poynor

Questioning the “critical” in Speculative and Critical Design – Luiza Prado e Pedro Oliveira

Speculative and critical Design in the gallery and beyond , The speculative and the mundane in practices of futuremaking – Exploring relations between design anthropology and critical design – Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard and Laurens Boer, SDU design, University of Southern Denmark

Design Critical Practice

Critical of What? – Ramia Mazé
Difficult forms: Critical Practices of Design and Research – By Ramia Mazé and Johan Redström
Default Systems in Graphic Design – Discussion between Rob Giampietro and Rudy VanderLans
A Swedish Perspective on Critical Practice – Rick Poynor
Forms of Inquiry – exhibition
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice: The Reader – several authors
Black Transparency – Metahaven
Designs for an overpopulated planet: Foragers, 2009 – Dunne and Raby
After Life Euthanasia Device, 2009 – Dunne and Raby
Emigre 57 – The Experimental JetSet
Call For Entries… A feature article without content – Daniel Eatock
“Re-View” issue #7 – Re-magazine
That New Design Smell Magazine

Design Fictions

Design fiction – Wikipédia
Design Fictions About Critical Design – Cameron Tonkinwise
Just Design, Being Dogmatic about Defining Speculative Critical Design Future Fiction – Cameron Tonkinwise
What is design fiction? – Joshua Tanenbaum
On Design Fictions – Bruce Sterling
What is the future of critical design?, Don’t panic – Roger Ibars
Critical Design / Critical Futures – Speculative Design Futures: Theory + Praxis – Emily Kao
Cognitive Redirective mapping: Designing futures that challenge anthropocentrism – Tristan Schultz
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming – Anthony Dunne,Fiona Rab

Design Criticism

Graphic Design & Critical Thinking – class first given in fall 2006 at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI
Critical Thinking by Design – Joanne Gainen Kurfiss, Santa Clara University
Research Through Design and Knowledge – Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Lone Koefoed Hansen
A plea for more critical thinking in design, please – John Barratt
Learning to Think Critically – Steven Bradley

Post-Critical / Un-Critical

Avoiding the Post-critical – Francisco Laranjo
Toward Critical Autonomy or can Graphic Design save itself – Andrew Blauvelt
The Work of Task – Andrew Blauvel
Critical of What? Toward a Utopian Realism – Reinhold Martin
Surface, White Night Manifesto – Metahaven
The First Things First Manifesto – several authors
Post-Critical Again – Charlie Cannon

Filosofia/História

Pós-modernismo

Graphic Design in the Postmodern Era – Mr. Keedy
Fredric Jameson’s interpretation of postmodernism – Ira Chernus
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – Fredric Jameson
What is post-modernism? – Charles Jencks
Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going? – Charles Jencks

Modernismo

Modernism in Design – Paul Greenhalgh

Ethics

 

Futures concept

Historical Utopians

Republic – Plato
Utopia [book] – Thomas More
The Commonwealth of Oceana – James Harrington (related: John Locke’s Road to Serfdom – John Quiggin)
The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond – Timothy Miller

Utopic socialism

Looking Backward From 2000 to 1887 – Edward Bellamy
News From Nowhere – William Morris
The Great Explosion – Eric Frank Russell
A Modern Utopia – H. G. Wells

Tech Futures and Foresights

A Primer on Futures Studies, Foresight and the Use of Scenarios – Joseph Voros
Discourse, Speculation and Disciplinarity: Designing Urban Futures – several authors
City | Data | Future
City | Data | Future (video)
The UrbanIxD Manifesto
Critical Design / Critical Futures

Philosophical Approaches to Futures

Becoming (concept), Heraclitus
The Future is Subhuman – Keith Ansell-Pearson about Malcolm Bulll Anti-Nietzsche
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism – Adrian Johnston
Futures – Jacques Derrida
Crimes of the Future – Jean-Michel Rabaté
El final de la utopía – Herbert Marcuse
Dialectic of the Past / Disjuncture of the Future: Derrida and Benjamin on the Concept of Messianism – Owen Ware
Philosophy in the Making – Quentin Meillassoux
Weak Messianism: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project – Alexander Gelley

Contemporary

The Future Lasts Forever – multiple authors
Crença na utopia é ainda a melhor forma de questionar a exclusão social – Slavoj Žižek
Vivir en el fin de los tiempos – Slavoj Žižek
Julian Assange in conversation with Slavoj Zizek moderated by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman
Let Us Be Realists And Demand The Impossible: Communism – Slavoj Žižek
Festival of Dangerous Ideas
Be realistic, demand the impossible – Alan Dobson
Design for transitions – from and to what? – Cameron Tonkinwise

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