Design Anthropology (eBook, ePUB)

Object Cultures in Transition
Redaktion: Clarke, Alison J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Design Anthropology brings together leading international design theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century.

Decades ago, product designers used basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer success. Today the design process has been radically transformed, with the user center-stage in the design process. From design ethnography to culture probing, innovative designers are employing anthropological methods to elicit the meanings rather than the mere form and function of objects. This important volume provides a fascinating exploration of the issues facing the shapers of our increasingly complex material world.

The text features case studies and investigations covering a diverse range of academic disciplines. From IKEA and anti-design to erotic twenty-first-century needlework and online interior decoration, the book positions itself at the intersections of design, anthropology, material culture, architecture, and sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474259064
• Artikelnr.: 50214377

Autorenporträt

Alison J. Clarke is Professor of Design History and Theory, and Director of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Materials and Design
Susanne Küchler (UCL
UK) 2. Objects in Sociology
Harvey Molotch (NYU
USA) 3. The Anthropological Object in Design: From Victor Papenek to Superstudio
Alison J. Clarke (University of Applied Arts Vienna
Austria) 4. Valuable to Values: How "User Research" Ought to Change
Maria Bezaitis (Intel Corporation
USA) and Rick E. Robinson (University of Colorado
USA) 5. Poetic Observation: What Designers Make of What They See
Jane Fulton Suri (IDEO
USA) 6. Prototyping the Social: Temporality and Speculative Futures at the Intersection of Design and Culture
Jamer Hunt (Parsons School of Design
USA) 7. Consuming IKEA and Inspiration as Material Form
Pauline Garvey (Maynooth University
Ireland) 8. "Erotic Needlework": Vernacular Designs on the 21st-century Market
Nicolette Makovicky (University of Oxford) 9. Functioning Forms / Anti-Design
Vladimir Arkhipov (Independent Artist) 10. Coloring Cars: Customizing Motor Vehicles in the East of the Australian Western Desert
Diana Young
The University of Queensland
Australia) 11. The Internet
the Parliament
and the Pub
Lane DeNicola (Emory College of Arts and Sciences
USA) 12. Interior Decoration: Offline and Online
Daniel Miller (UCL
UK) 13. Designing Financial Literacy in Haiti
Erin B. Taylor and Heather A. Horst (Western Sydney University
Australia) 14. Stirring the Anthropological Imagination: Ontological Design in Spaces of Transition
Arturo Escobar (University of North Carolina
USA) Index