Critical Design Manifesto
Critical Design is rhetoric and honest translation through a variety of mediums to communicate and deliver an effective message in a world that is loud and rapid. It is a toolbox of advertent and observant skills in service of a higher end. Instead of fantasizing the odds, Critical Design reflects the here and now; embracing both the beauty of it and its shortcomings.
Critical Design considers the role of a designer, as the mediator of communication, to be crucial in building the relationship between the user― the human and the other end: another user, self, community, environment, and machine. Therefore, it is the role of the designer to study and expose the influence of these initiated communications onto the well-being of humankind (and all kinds).
Critical Design must seek to exercise creativity to be the soul of a utilized body, which both are definitive in destination yet free in creation. Critical Design encourages to expand its realm by experimentation only with careful consideration of the long run consequences. Critical Design must not be practiced in irrelevant contexts even if no harm is guaranteed; it is because Critical Design must acknowledge the mortality of being, nature, production, and creation.
On the basis thereof, to design according to the demand and not the sheer luxury of it. Unfortunately, these abovementioned limitations in nature, of knowledge, and in resources prevent Critical Design of being completely tolerant; consequently, a Critical Designer must exploit his skills to sift whatever contemporary ideologies are given. Finally, Critical Design considers judicious messaging to be the intrinsic quality of design.