Design and anthropology [

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Donovan, Jared (Author), Gunn, Wendy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing , c2012
Series:Anthropological studies of creativity and perception
Subjects:
Online Access:IG Publishing
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Design anthropology: an introduction
  • 2. The patient as skilled practitioner
  • 3. Hearing poorly with skill
  • 4. Gliding effortlessly through life? surfaces and friction
  • 5. An institutional view on user improvisation and design
  • 6. The time it takes to make: design and use in architecture and archaeology
  • 7. Moving from objects to possibilities
  • 8. Emergence of user identity in social interaction
  • 9. The role of supply chains in product design
  • 10. Anthropological fieldwork and designing potentials
  • 11. Designing behaviour
  • 12. Emergent artefacts of ethnography and processual engagements of design
  • 13. Theories and figures of technical mediation
  • 14. Utopian things