The most interesting aspect of this weeks lecture for me was the connection between critical design and design activism. Design activism encourages change in social, cultural and political environments much like critical design, where design prompts viewers to reflect on and critique certain issues or aspects in society. While I do not think it is completely necessary for all design to encourage reflection and change in society, I do think it is an important element of design and our communities and can be really valuable to a viewer in order to encourage new and interesting ways of thinking about and understanding the world. Design can effectively do this by visually communicating somewhat radical scenarios and grounding them in design ideas that the viewers can ground in reality enabling them to have a greater understanding of the critique being made.
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