Consequences of Design

This is a DfI programme course.

The impact of design goes well beyond individual users. This course will help students reflect on the consequences of their designs, and the design profession, from a number of angles, including labor and political economy, race, gender, and environment. Drawing from critical theory, history, and social science, students will come to better understand the power of design--and the limits thereof--and gain the theoretical tools to articulate the role of design in the global order.

Each week the course zooms into a specific object using one or more critical lenses. At the end of the course students will curate mini-exhibitions in which they put these critical tools and skills to use in analyzing an original selection of objects.