Design & Criticism final (authors + 1 sentence description)

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Foucault

Power is embedded in systems and knowledge; design and institutions shape behavior by structuring what people can do and think.

Carey

Communication is not just transmitting information but creating shared culture through ritual that maintain social meaning.

Dunne & Raby

Design should critique society by using speculative and provocative objects to question assumptions and imagine alternative futures.

Jencks & Silver

Adhocism describes creative design through hybrid combinations of existing elements, emphasizing flexibility, improvisation, and pluralism.

Sennett

Cooperation is a learned skill that enables people to work across differences, but modern society often weakens this ability.

Latour

Objects and technologies are active agents that shape human behavior; society is a network of human and nonhuman actors.

Winner

Technologies are inherently political because their design can enforce power structures and shape social inequalities.

Escobar

Design should support community autonomy and relational ways of living, enabling people to shape their own social and ecological future.

Bhabha

Identity is formed in “in-between” cultural spaces, where hybridity and difference create new meanings and social possibilities.

Mirzoeff

Visual culture studies how images shape how we see and understand the world; Seeing is a cultural and political act.

Sonntag

Photographs do not simply capture reality but shape it, influencing what we value and how we understand the world.

Butler

Gender is not natural but performed through repeated social acts; identity is constructed within cultural norms.

Miller

Social media creates “scalable sociality”, allowing communication across different levels of privacy and group size, reshaping social interaction.