| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北科技大學 === 創新設計研究所 === 95 === Critical design tries to apply design as a media to criticize or debate the social situation, and challenges existing idea of value. The core of the concept is para-functionality, stated by Anthony Dunne. It is originated from J. Baudrillard’s theory in Le systeme des objets; as technology and society get advanced, the value of objects gets involved more into subjective non-functionality, as psychological level, rather than objective functionality.
This study outlines six factors of para-functionality: criticism, wonder and surprise, glimpse, margins of design, pathological gadgets and conceptualizing reality. This study exhibits six designs from students’ works in Royal College of Art and five exemplars from Anthony Dunne’s book, and conducts questionnaires to fifty-five people to examine how they react to six para-functional factors.
The result shows “Conceptualizing reality” (creating a scenario) is the factor used to express the other five factors. Not all para-functional factors could be experienced partially in every design. It depends on how designers focus on their concepts, and it relates with context sensibility of subjects. Para-functional factors are key elements and approaches that help people understand critical design.
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