TY - GEN AU - Malpass, Matt TI - Critical design in context: history, theory, and practices SN - 9781472575173 U1 - 745.4 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - AR N2 - Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields. Matt Malpass's book is the first to introduce critical design as a field, providing a history of the discipline, outlining its key influences, theories and approaches, and explaining how critical design can work in practice through a range of contemporary examples. Critical Design moves away from traditional approaches that limit design's role to the production of profitable objects, focusing instead on a practice that is interrogative, discursive and experimental ER -