Design and Anthropology by Wendy Gunn (English) Paperback Book

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Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical investigations and documentation of practice based experiments, it addresses methodological questions concerning the re-conceptualisation of the relation between design and use from both theoretical and practice-based positions. Concerned with what it means to draw 'users' into processes of designing and producing this book emphasises the creativity of design and the emergence of objects in social situations and collaborative endeavours. Organised around the themes of perception and the user-producer, skilled practices of designing and using, and the relation between people and things, the book contains the latest work of researchers from academia and industry, to enhance our understanding of ethnographic practice and develop a research agenda for the emergent field of design anthropology. Drawing together work from anthropologists, philosophers, designers, engineers, scholars of innovation and theatre practitioners, Design and Anthropology will appeal to anthropologists and to those working in the fields of design and innovation, and the philosophy of technology and engineering.

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Wendy Gunn is Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at the University of Southern Denmark. Jared Donovan is Lecturer in Interaction Design at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Design Anthropology: An Introduction, Wendy GunnJared Donovan; Part I Using and Producing; Introduction1 The Perception of the User–Producer, TimIngold; Chapter 2 The Patient as Skilled Practitioner, KyleKilbourn; Chapter 3 Hearing Poorly with Skill, DennisDay; Chapter 4 Gliding Effortlessly Through Life? Surfaces and Friction, GrietScheldeman; Chapter 5 An Institutional View on User Improvisation and Design, MaxRolfstam, JacobBuur; Part II Designing and Using; Introduction2 Defining Moments, JohanRedström; Chapter 6 The Time it Takes to Make: Design and Use in Architecture and Archaeology, LesleyMcFadyen; Chapter 7 Moving from Objects to Possibilities, JaredDonovan, WendyGunn; Chapter 8 Emergence of User Identity in Social Interaction, HenryLarsen, ClausHave; Chapter 9 The Role of Supply Chains in Product Design, BenedicteBrøgger; Part III People and Things; Introduction3 Humanity in Design, Peter-PaulVerbeek; ch10 Anthropological Fieldwork and Designing Potentials, MetteKjærsgaard, TonOtto; ch11 Designing Behaviour, NynkeTromp, PaulHekkert; ch12 Emergent Artefacts of Ethnography and Processual Engagements of Design, JamieWallace; ch13 Theories and Figures of Technical Mediation, StevenDorrestijn; epilo Epilogue; Chapter 14 Utopian Things, PelleEhn;

Review

'The book is innovatory, ambitious and important. It asks a radical question: What methodological transformations in design practices are necessary to build better relations between designing and using?. In the text distinctions between design, production and use, between perception, creativity and skill, are questioned, while anthropology, engineering, management, archaeology, philosophy, theatre and communication studies are challenged to find a common language of engagement. Design anthropology is a burgeoning field and this book is a significant development.' Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews, UK 'How to think about design? This is one of the key challenges of our future-obsessed times and this book is a provocative contribution to the debate. Focusing on the concrete and the mundane whilst sharpening the conceptual tools for understanding sociotechnical change, its essays thoroughly complicate the popular but misleading notion that design equals experts solving given problems.' Eeva Berglund, author of Knowing Nature, Knowing Science and Legacies of Empire and Spatial Divides ' ... this book to be of great importance because it speaks about previously unwritten aspects on how design can be understood and used in our everyday lives.' Qualitative Research

Long Description

Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical investigations and documentation of practice based experiments, it addresses methodological questions concerning the re-conceptualisation of the relation between design and use from both theoretical and practice-based positions. Concerned with what it means to draw 'users' into processes of designing and producing this book emphasises the creativity of design and the emergence of objects in social situations and collaborative endeavours. Organised around the themes of perception and the user-producer, skilled practices of designing and using, and the relation between people and things, the book contains the latest work of researchers from academia and industry, to enhance our understanding of ethnographic practice and develop a research agenda for the emergent field of design anthropology. Drawing together work from anthropologists, philosophers, designers, engineers, scholars of innovation and theatre practitioners, Design and Anthropology will appeal to anthropologists and to those working in the fields of design and innovation, and the philosophy of technology and engineering.

Details ISBN1138244783 Year 2016 ISBN-10 1138244783 ISBN-13 9781138244788 Format Paperback Series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Jared Donovan DEWEY 745.4 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2016-11-08 Language English UK Release Date 2016-11-08 AU Release Date 2016-11-08 NZ Release Date 2016-11-08 Author Jared Donovan Alternative 9781409421580 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Pages 288 We've got this

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