Contents:
Part I-- 1. Criticality; or woe is me, what is it good for! --
Part II --2. You, me, I, or we: criticality through situated creative practice/s
3. Chris Brisbin & Myra Thiessen
4. Crits, Consensus, and Criticality: Making Artists in the Contemporary Art School
5. Curatorial Practice as a Critical Agent in Urban Contexts
6. How to be a Good Witness: The Architecture Curator
7. Deviant Theory
8. An Outline Politics of The Critical
9. Configuring Critique (or the art of not being governed quite so much) --Part III --
10. Looks arent everything, except when they are: the critical aesthetics of un-critical and post-critical artefacts
11. The After Critical
12. On Architectures Metacriticality
13. Horse horse tiger tiger: the critical functioning of Chinese copying and assemblage aesthetics
14. A Marxist Critique of Iconic Architecture
15. Performance-Critical Architecture
16. Ungraspable Criticality: Surface in Architecture
17. Reading Resonance: Post Factum Documentation as Creative Criticism --
Part IV --18. Dont take this the wrong way, but : the changing nature of media, medium, and message in art, architecture, and design criticism
19. The Landscape of Practices: decolonizing landscape architecture
20. Of Neon, Road Signs, and Head Shapes: A Case for Generative Criticism
21. Best Made Re Made: Critical Interventions in the Online Marketplace
22. Professional reflection and visual arguments for patients: Is graphic design really a critical practice?
23. But, it won an award: a look at communication design excellence
24. On the expert and the amateur in online architectural commentary
25. Insta-critique: critical practices in the moment of social media --
Part V --
26. Less woe, more wow!: shifting disciplinary viewpoints to make a critical cultural difference

Summary:
The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design presents an in-depth exploration of criticism and criticality in theory and practice across the disciplines of art, architecture, and design. Professional criticism is a vital part of understanding the cultural significance of designed objects and environments that we engage with on a daily basis, yet thereis evidence to show that this practice is changing. This edited volume investigates how practitioners, researchers, educators, and professionals engage with, think about, and value the practice of critique. With contributions from a multi-disciplinary authorship from nine countries -the UK, USA, Australia, India, Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, Belgium, and Denmark -this companion provides a wide range of leading perspectives evaluating the landscape of criticality and how it is being shaped by technological and social advances. Illustrated with over 60 black and white images and structured into five sections, The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design is a comprehensive volume for researchers, educators, and students exploring the changing role of criticism through interdisciplinary perspectives.