Speculative and Critical Design (SCD) methods can produce provocative artifacts that help audiences recognize the political worlds in which all designed objects participate. Similarly, SCD can be leveraged in educational settings to help design students engage with social and political theory through their design work. SCD practices, however, are rarely seen outside of arts and creative design spaces, which limits any potential political impact they may have. This article traces the integration of SCD practices into “the hard case” of engineering education—a space with radically different, and at times oppositional, intellectual, and political traditions than creative design. I argue that the SCD platforms must reflexively account for and bridge radical epistemological differences among design disciplines, including those disciplines that may have an innate aversion to “political” content, if they are to have transformational impact outside of art and creative design worlds.

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翻译批判性设计：工程教育中的对抗

思辨和批判性设计 (SCD) 方法可以产生具有煽动性的人工制品，帮助观众识别所有设计对象都参与的政治世界。同样，可以在教育环境中利用 SCD 来帮助设计学生通过他们的设计工作参与社会和政治理论。然而，SCD 实践很少出现在艺术和创意设计空间之外，这限制了它们可能产生的任何潜在的政治影响。本文追溯了 SCD 实践与工程教育“困难案例”的整合——一个与创意设计截然不同、有时甚至是对立的、知识和政治传统的空间。我认为 SCD 平台必须反思并弥合设计学科之间的根本认识论差异，