Design Transforms | Matt Malpass

Matt Malpass is a designer and theorist working to advance design’s agency through critical design practice. His work aims to contextualize the field of critical design practice by considering the approaches used to establish the critical move through design. He advocates design’s agency in tackling complex social, political and environmental problems through critical, speculative, empathetic, plural and participatory design practices. His work explores the role critical and peripheral design practice plays in expanding design’s disciplinary purview. He is a Professor of Critical Design Practice at Central Saint Martins, UAL, where he is Dean of S School.

Design Transforms is a lecture series from the Product, Ceramic and Industrial Design programme at Central Saint Martins, where expert practitioners are invited to share their thoughts on the idea of transformation examined through the lens of their work.