week 11. what is critical about critical design

What is "critical" about critical design?

So if we want to understand what makes critical design

“critical,” the preceding list gives us our answer: a design

research project may be judged “critical” to the extents

that it proposes a perspective-changing holistic account of

a given phenomenon, and that this account is grounded in

speculative theory, reflects a dialogical methodology, improves

the public’s cultural competence, and is reflexively

aware of itself as an actor—with both power and constraints—

within the social world it is seeking to change. (p. 3304)