Critical by Design?

In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At same time, is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises past, normalises present, precludes just sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence field design, question inherent blind spots discipline, expand understandings what practices could be. With from theory, practice education, art philosophy, informatics, »Critical by Design?« aims unpack ambivalent tensions between critique.