Design Anthropology
Object Culture in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-3-7091-0233-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Design Anthropology" brings together a unique range of cutting-edge design theorists and social scientists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century. Decades ago, product designers utilised basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer success - today the design process has been radically transformed; the user is now centre-stage in the design process. From design ethnography to cultural probing, innovative designers in the 21st century are relying on anthropological methods to illicit the meaning, rather than the mere form and function of stuff.
The work offers the definitive guide to the issues facing the shapers of our increasingly complex material world. How has user-experience transformed our understanding of design? And how do leading design corporations, from IDEO to INTEL, harness the insight of anthropologists in generating future visions? Why are new disciplines, like digital anthropology, shaping our increasingly de-materialised product cultures?
The work offers the definitive guide to the issues facing the shapers of our increasingly complex material world. How has user-experience transformed our understanding of design? And how do leading design corporations, from IDEO to INTEL, harness the insight of anthropologists in generating future visions? Why are new disciplines, like digital anthropology, shaping our increasingly de-materialised product cultures?
Reviews / Votes
"This is a book that successfully explores this burgeoning field and will interest designers, anthropologists', marketers and sociologists." Artichoke, April 2011More details
Series
Edition
1., 2011
Language
English
Place of publication
Vienna
Austria
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
80
20 s/w Abbildungen, 80 farbige Abbildungen
20 black & white illustrations, 80 colour illustrations
ISBN-13
978-3-7091-0233-6 (9783709102336)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Alison J. Clarke is professor and chair of Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna and research director of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation promoting socially aware design. Formerly a senior academic at the Royal College of Art, London, Clarke has a MA with Distinction in Design History (RCA/V&A), and a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London. She is a former Smithsonian Fellow of History and author of Tupperware: the Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (Smithsonian Press), optioned for the making of an Emmy-nominated USA documentary. She is a regular contributor to media (most recently the ground-breaking The Genius of Design, BBC TV), and has authored numerous articles on the ethnography of everyday design.
Content
Alison Clarke: Introduction
DESIGNERS GO NATIVE:
Jane Fulton Suri: Poetic Observation: What Designers Make of What They See
Jamer Hunt: Prototyping the Social: Temporality and Speculative Futures at the Intersection of Design and Culture
Jo-Anne Bichard & Rama Gheerawo: The Designer as Ethnographer: Practical Projects from Industry
Lorraine Gamman & Adam Thorpe: Criminality and Creativity: What's at Stake in Designing Against Crime?
PEOPLE, OBJECTS AND ENTANGLEMENTS:
Alison J. Clarke: The Anthropological Object in Design: From Victor Papanek to Superstudio
Daniel Miller: Designing Ourselves
Harvey Molotch: Objects in Sociology
Diana Young: Coloring Cars: Customizing Motor Vehicles in the East of the Australian Western Desert
MUTATING FORMS, SHIFTING MATERIALITIES:
Susanne Küchler: Materials and Design
Pauline Garvey: Consuming Ikea: Inspiration as Material Form
Nicolette Makovicky: 'Erotic Needlework': Vernacular Designs on the 21st Century Market
Vladimir Arkhipov: Functioning Forms / Anti-Design
FUTURE TRAJECTORIES: FUTURE USERS:
Maria Bezaitis & Rick Robinson: Valuable to Values: How 'User Research' Ought to Change
Lane Denicola: The Digital as Para-World: Design, Anthropology, and Information Technologies
Kathrina Dankl: 31m2 and Style
Simon Roberts: Technology for the Future, Design for the Present?
Authors' Biographies
Index
DESIGNERS GO NATIVE:
Jane Fulton Suri: Poetic Observation: What Designers Make of What They See
Jamer Hunt: Prototyping the Social: Temporality and Speculative Futures at the Intersection of Design and Culture
Jo-Anne Bichard & Rama Gheerawo: The Designer as Ethnographer: Practical Projects from Industry
Lorraine Gamman & Adam Thorpe: Criminality and Creativity: What's at Stake in Designing Against Crime?
PEOPLE, OBJECTS AND ENTANGLEMENTS:
Alison J. Clarke: The Anthropological Object in Design: From Victor Papanek to Superstudio
Daniel Miller: Designing Ourselves
Harvey Molotch: Objects in Sociology
Diana Young: Coloring Cars: Customizing Motor Vehicles in the East of the Australian Western Desert
MUTATING FORMS, SHIFTING MATERIALITIES:
Susanne Küchler: Materials and Design
Pauline Garvey: Consuming Ikea: Inspiration as Material Form
Nicolette Makovicky: 'Erotic Needlework': Vernacular Designs on the 21st Century Market
Vladimir Arkhipov: Functioning Forms / Anti-Design
FUTURE TRAJECTORIES: FUTURE USERS:
Maria Bezaitis & Rick Robinson: Valuable to Values: How 'User Research' Ought to Change
Lane Denicola: The Digital as Para-World: Design, Anthropology, and Information Technologies
Kathrina Dankl: 31m2 and Style
Simon Roberts: Technology for the Future, Design for the Present?
Authors' Biographies
Index