Designs and anthropologies : frictions and affinities / edited by Keith M. Murphy and Eitan Wilf ; afterword by Arturo Escobar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Keith M., editor.

Wilf, Eitan Y., editor.

Escobar, Arturo, 1951- writer of afterword.

Series:

School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--Anthropological aspects.

Design.

Design--Human factors.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Anthropology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

v, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press ; Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The chapters in this captivating volume demonstrate the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life within the study of anthropology. The scholars explore the interactions between anthropology and design through a cross-disciplinary approach, and while their approaches vary in how they specifically consider design, they are all centered around the design-and-anthropology relationship. The chapters look at anthropology for design, in which anthropological methods and concepts are mobilized in the design process; anthropology of design, in which design is positioned as an object of ethnographic inquiry and critique; and design for anthropology, in which anthropologists borrow concepts and practices from design to enhance traditional ethnographic forms. Collectively, the chapters argue that bringing design and anthropology together can transform both fields in more than one way and that to tease out the implications of using design to reimagine ethnography-and of using ethnography to reimagine design-we need to consider the historical specificity of their entanglements. Published in Association with School for Advanced Research Press"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Border thinking about anthropologies/ designs / Lucy Suchman

The wrong means to misguided ends: corporate-based design, streamlined insights, and anthropologists' "hyperdesire for relevance" / Eitan Wilf

Feeling, action, and speculative value through human-centered design / Lilly Irani

Autonomia ethnographica: liberal designs, designs for liberation, and the liberation of design / Alberto Corsín Jiménez

The kinship between ethnography and scenography: design proposals and methods working within ethnographic projects / George E. Marcus

Form-giving as moral mediation / Keith M. Murphy

Money troubles: designing a bridge to the ephemera of expectations / Douglas R. Holmes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Designs and anthropologies.

ISBN:

9780826362780

0826362788

OCLC:

1252736969