Critical Design Exhibition



We made the exhibition because design is not only focused on problem solving or pure aesthetics, but can also have a critical approach, which is what we have done with this exhibition. We have used the ability of design to highlight and criticize the issue of inequality in our society, an issue that is not only a big issue in Sweden but rather vast parts of Europe and the world.



Qualified: Can You Manage?



Jobs in leading positions are more than often assigned in ways that are highly unequal, prejudiced and critical towards many people. People are turned down often not because they don’t fit, but purely out of bias reasons. People are being treated differently based on their gender, sexuality, religions, looks and even names. We have developed our game to show exactly that and reflect this issue in our society.


Unfortunately design couldn’t solve this problem. So take action and make it change!



Let's Play a Game!



You have applied for a job in a leading position and were invited to a job interview. Spin the fortune wheel, and you will get an assigned persona. Personas fit into three different categories: privileged group, less privileged group, and underprivileged group. For example, Dan is a son of Afghan immigrants, freshly graduated.


If you were assigned a persona from the underprivileged group, the only thing you can get at the end of the interview is a nice letter of decline, despite how good you answered those questions in the game. It is the crucial fact of how a great number of people are treated differently in reality, merely because of their name, origin, sexuality or other banal reasons.



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Type



Critical design, exhibition design.


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Team



Albertina Ravn, Johanna Meier, Lennart Schmitz, Yunquan Liu

Student project: 8 weeks



My role



Sketch, 3D modelling, Rendering, Graphic Design, Exhibition Design