The Critical Catalyst: A Critical Approach to Design Futures Literacy

Design and Future Studies are intrinsically related fields. Both fields pursue the goal to introduce potential visions of future achieve a sustainable for humanity. However, challenges becoming more evident with increasing ubiquity socio-technological advancements. Over past three decades, several movements have emerged shared objective being critical design (Mazé, 2019); these attempting operate outside external borders market-driven enquiry (Malpass, 2017). These practices require examination possibilities change that mitigate unfavourable consequences. This paper reflects on way Research through approach can affect activities devices we developed refer as Critical Catalyst (CC). We applied this MSc students in Integrated Product at School Politecnico di Milano. The results experience condensed into nine provo-types (provocative prototypes) presented end course. examines CC process upon tools by analysing choices.