Alice Twemlow founded SVA's MA Design Research, Writing and Criticism program in 2008 and chaired it until 2015. Now based in Amsterdam, she is head of the MA in Design Curating and 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 Observer, 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. RSVP here.

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