Inside anthropotechnology. Volume 1 : user and culture centered experience / edited by Philippe Geslin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geslin, Philippe, editor.

Series:

Science, Society and New Technologies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Anthropological aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages) : color illustrations, map, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE : Wiley, 2017.

Summary:

For the last 40 years, anthropotechnology has concentrated its efforts on the study and improvement of the working and living conditions of populations throughout the world. It guides the actors of the design processes by paying attention to the "human factor": its social, cultural and environmental components. It therefore values a conception of techniques that respect people and their ways of thinking and acting in specific contexts. This book introduces the reader to design dynamics that combine often conflicting sets of competencies, but that are always anxious to respond to the contexts of the field.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

The evolution of anthropotechnology

A gradual institutionalization

Why then, in an intellectual context like this, as an ethnologist, do I continue to use the term "Anthropotechnology?"

On the choices that allowed for the creation of this research laboratory 10 years ago

Has this choice paid off?

Opening

Bibliography

1. Anthropotechnological Practice and Time Politics in the Development Industry

1.1. Conducting research about water allocation when there is no water

1.2. Time, power and cotemporalities

1.2.1. Ethnographic temporality

1.2.2. Bureaucratic temporality

1.3. Anthropotechnological temporalities: the Tanzanian case

1.3.1. The oMoMi project

1.3.2. Project genesis: when does a project begin?

1.3.3. Supported iterations

1.3.4. Productive cotemporality: simultaneity, crowdsourcing and FabLab fabrication

1.4. Conclusion: designing technologies based on user temporality

1.5. Bibliography

2. The Appropriation of Knowledge: An Anthropology of Transmission in the Context of Professional Training

2.1. The anthropotechnological approach to appropriation as a critique of the notion of transmission

2.2. Learning an industry

2.2.1. The "mechanical sense" as a way of knowing

2.2.2. Skilled vision or sight training

2.3. Transmission methods for the "mechanical sense"

2.3.1. Professional training beyond binary oppositions

2.3.2. The pedagogy of concealment

2.3.3. Objects as transfer vectors of the profession

2.4. A theory of transmission as appropriation and transformation

2.5. Bibliography

3. At the Heart of the Sensibility: The "Profane" Gold of Madre de Dios

3.1. Prologue

3.2. Context: the challenge of a perceived nature

3.3. The scene: a humid and slippery topography.

3.4. Gold mining: a skillful practice between nature and culture

3.5. Body techniques: embodied tempo

3.6. Body to body with the elements

3.7. Gold and mercury: sensual alchemy

3.8. The mythic body of miners

3.9. Sensitive memory: transmission of a "slippery" skill

3.10. Collective memory: the development of a social body

3.11. Local memory of development

3.12. Discussion: an intervention based on profane knowledge

3.13. Conclusion: contribution to anthropotechnology

3.14. Bibliography

4. The Fall Between the Objectification of Engineers and the Subjectification of Elderly People: The Challenges of Mediation

4.1. Introduction

4.2. New technologies for older generations

4.3. The cultural dimension of gerontechnologies

4.4. Defining and understanding the fall in the home

4.5. Common frames of reference

4.6. Anthropotechnology, process of legitimization and transfer of ethnographic knowledge

4.7. Conclusion

4.8. Bibliography

5. In Step with Prosthetic Limbs! A Study of Scaling Up from Local Innovations

5.1. A multisite study in northern and southern Vietnam

5.2. The conventional route: standard and existing prostheses

5.3. Forms of appropriation and illustrative stories

5.4. Taking the next step: an analysis of scale-up factors

5.4.1. Partnerships and history: anchoring in the local network to better scale-up

5.4.2. Local adaptation of techniques and objects, proof of appropriation

5.4.3. Adaptability of technologies in an autopoietic system

5.5. Discussions and a review of the anthropotechnological approach

5.6. Acknowledgements

5.7. Bibliography

6. FabLabs, Product Design and Anthropotechnology

6.1. FabLabs

6.1.1. History

6.1.2. Philosophy

6.1.3. Evolution

6.2. A day in the FabLab

6.3. Anthropotechnology and FabLabs.

6.3.1. Managing water in Tanzania

6.3.2. Pleco: the electrolytic pencil

6.4. Conclusion

6.5. Bibliography

List of Authors

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 18, 2017).

ISBN:

9781119452843

1119452848

9781119452829

1119452821

9781119452775

1119452775

OCLC:

1001454091