In Architecture and urban design education, critique it is hard to find anymore: it does seem lost in the call for a renewed disciplinary autonomy, localised territorial interests and the sole artistic and sovereign agency of the maestro: it seems hidden in the sustainability solutionism or reduced to margins, the sole negative with its arrogant tone, stripped from the forms of seminars and discussions and forced to be ancillary to design studios extremisms. The same happen to any form of critical theory, being marxist, relegated to its obsolescence, feminist labelled as activist and anti disciplinar or decolonial, still misjudged as infused in the call of social justice and exoticism. Starting from these assumptions and grounding the reflections in the pedagogical experiences of the author, the paper ask how is then possible to reconfigure critique in the present within a planetary catastrophe in which design is always/already implicated and entangled? What visions of critique are required to intervene into the tangle of ecological, economic, cultural, and sociopolitical conditions of today? What form this could take in architectural and urban design education? Mobilising a Foucault definition of critique as gesture that arrest, disorganise, denaturalise and dehegemonise and expanding it with a partial reading of abolitionist literature.