ALICE TWEMLOW FOUNDED THE SVA MA IN DESIGN RESEARCH, Writing &
CRITICISM IN NEW YORK, in 2008, and chaired it until 2015. Now based
in Amsterdam, she is co-head of the MA in DESIGN CURATING & Writing at
DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN. She writes and lectures on all aspects of
DESIGN CULTURE, and has recently contributed to _Dirty
Furniture_, _History of Design Journal_, _Eye_, _Design
Observe_r, _Graphisme en France _(CNAP, 2016), and _Iconic Designs:
50 Stories about 50 Things _(Berg, 2014), among others.In this talk,
based on her forthcoming book _Sifting the Trash: A History of Design
Criticism_ (MIT Press, 2017), Alice will consider historical
instances when critics attempted to question design’s impact on the
physical environment and the social psyche as well as how experimental
modes of practice and speculative projects offer an array of
precedents for how product design and its criticism might be conducted
in the future.
_Image: Cover of Student Handbook, an unofficial publication printed
on newsprint and distributed at the International Design Conference
Aspen 1970, showing a sculpture of junked cars and appliances, painted
white and assembled in Aspen by students from Northern Illinois
University under the supervision of their professor, Don Strel, in
1969. Courtesy of The Getty Research Institute._
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