MORE-THAN-DEATH: A Critical Design Futures Narrative About the Taboo of Death * Journal of Futures Studies This paper introduces More-Than-Death as a critical design futures concept that reconsiders the taboo of death beyond human-centered life exceptionalism. Building on More-Than-Human and Post-humanist ...

jfsdigital.org/2025-2/vol-3... How can #narratives incorporating #designpractice and #criticaldesign #futures help to overcome #taboos about #death, using the 'More-Than-Death' concept for rethinking #sustainability, #mortality, and #coexistence in the #PostAnthropocene era? Find out in this great

Design in Conflict: Lebanese Students Reimagine Design for Life Under War Design in Conflict is an exhibition that brings together architecture and design students from Lebanon to confront the realities of living under continuous instability. Hosted inside Beirut’s abandone...

When war shapes daily life, design stops being aesthetic.
It becomes necessary. What is design really for?
www.otaviosantiago.com/post/design-...
#DesignInConflict #CriticalDesign #DesignAndPolitics #CreativeResistance

We're excited to share that Alluvial Decoder (City of Raleigh Storm Memorial) was recently selected as one of 29 projects globally to represent the topic of "Critical Design" at this year's upcoming UIA World Congress of Architects in Barcelona.

📸 Jordan Gray

#design #climate #criticaldesign #uia

Indicative/illustrative image of the heading of the academic article.

New paper: We argue that ’Neodesign’ – the procedural, sandboxed version of design that has emerged in the past 20 years – threatens the very qualities that made design valuable in the first place: craft, imagination, & playfulness | hdl.handle.net/2123/34531 | #designresearch #criticaldesign

You’re tagged, tracked, silently known,
reduced to signals overthrown.
Not who you are, but what you do
the system stares, but never you.

#DigitalSurveillance #AlgorithmicSelf #YouAreTheData #SystemCritique #PostPrivacy #DigitalIdentity #Resistance #AIArt #CriticalDesign

The most dangerous form of control is the one that feels like freedom.

#VoluntarySurveillance #DigitalControl #ConsentByDesign #AlgorithmicPower #PostPrivacy #CriticalDesign #SystemCritique #DigitalResistance

Humor is a precision tool.
Laughter exposes fear, hierarchy, and the maintenance that hides behind inevitability.

#digitalcolonialism #extractiveai #decolonialmedia #postindustrial #TechnoFeudalism #criticaldesign #speculativemedia #mediaart #indigenousfutures #systemscritique
#entropy

It moves differently when it knows it’s being watched—
...and the future still don’t know how to act right.

#RetroFuture #ChicanoFuturism #SciFiAesthetics #DesignCollection #PostIndustrialArt #DecolonialAesthetics #VisualTheory #FutureArchives #MediaArt #ConceptDesign #CriticalDesign

The Value of Professional Design Services: Elevating Your Brand’s Visual Story In today’s fast-paced digital world, first impressions are everything. When a potential customer lands on your website or sees your marketing materials, what do they see? Is it a polished, cohesive vi...

Decoration flatters the eye. Design shapes perception, trust, and action. The difference is not style — it’s intention.

www.otaviosantiago.com/post/the-val...

#OtavioSantiago #DesignTheory #BeyondAesthetics #VisualStrategy #CriticalDesign

Happy New Years 2026

Feliz Aninovo • Feliz Año Nuevo • Happy New Years

#newyears2026
#graphicdesign
#conceptualdesign
#visualcommunication
#artdirection
#criticaldesign

"Equilateral Hypocrisy"

~ vercel.deploy(blood)

#art #OC #digitalart #conceptart #politicalart #symbolism #criticaldesign #visualcommunication #minimalism #artwithmeaning #designcommunity #OC #vercel #palestine #israel #rauchg

6/
If you don’t shape the tools, the tools shape you.
And these tools don’t just want your attention.
They want your epistemology.
#AIPolitics #CriticalDesign

this is an interesting framework for (in my eyes) controversial nudging methods (i.e in design) #CriticalDesign #techethics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Reliquary: Violence
Brass, Cherry, Bronzed polyethylene terephthalate glycol, Electronics
9in X 6in X 6in

#art
#intermedia
#newmedia
#newmediaart
#newmediaartist
#generativeart
#dataviz
#datavisualization
#rhino3d
#3dprinting
#activistart
#criticaldesign
#firearmsafety

This singing bowl is struck once every time a person is shot to death by another person in the United States. Real time data from the Gun Violence Archive, a non-partisan source.

#art
#intermedia
#newmedia
#generativeart
#datavisualization
#3dprinting
#activistart
#criticaldesign
#firearmsafety

Screen and exhibition collateral on table. A sign reads “A Misbehaving Machine”. Text on the screen if in blue on a green background and has a series of questions and answers.

“The Making of Misbehaving Machines” up and running at Parramatta City Library.

misbehavingmachines.net

#criticalVisualisation #criticalDesign #ml #ai #creativePractice

@jeffreybardzell.bsky.social &company were generating scholarship in this #criticaldesign area early on