Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
HASTAC 2023: Critical Making & Social Justice, New York, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 8 - 10 Haziran 2023, ss.12-13
Critical Design (CD) has a close relationship with everyday life where we encounter most of political/injustice issues through our practices. CD comprehends everyday life, speculate and materialize it. It deterritorializes every day practices and alienates them so that we are able to recognize the embedded injustice. But, how does CD tackle with familiarity of everydayness? Because as Hegel says, "The familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown.” The familiar resists to be revealed. This is the main idea I intended to intervene: to go beyond familiarity of everyday life via a methodology for Critical Design course.
CD is an attitude, a position; so "methodology" itself contradict with the nature of CD (as connoted with affirmative design practices). Regarding, we use "methodology" in this study as a discursive yet flexible theoretical framework consisted of four theories as: Critical Design and Everyday Life, Object-Oriented Ontology and New Materialism, The Public and Construction of Publics, Strategy-Tactics.
These new theoretical lenses bright up our path to stratified and complex injustice issues by making them visible and open them to discussion. Some of the student projects (HEIMATLOS, WATERDROBE and SEVERITY OF VIOLENCE) exemplify the proposed methodology of Critical Design Course.