Design Anthropological Futures

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A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology’s focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal both the challenges for and the potential of this rapidly growing transdisciplinary field. Divided into four sections – Ethnographies of the Possible, Interventionist Speculation, Collaborative Formation of Issues, and Engaging Things – the book develops readers’ understanding of the central theoretical and methodological aspects of future knowledge production in design anthropology. Bringing together renowned scholars such as George Marcus and Alison Clarke with young experimental design anthropologists from countries such as Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Brazil, the UK, and the United States, the sixteen chapters offer an unparalleled breadth of theoretical reflections and rich empirical case studies. Written by those at the forefront of the field, Design Anthropological Futures is destined to become a defining text for this growing discipline. A unique resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in design anthropology, design, architecture, material culture studies, and related fields. FC Half title Title Copyright Contents List of Figures Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Design Anthropological Futures Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard, Joachim Halse, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Thomas Binder and Ton Otto Section I Ethnographies of the Possible 2 Cultures of the Future: Emergence and Intervention in Design Anthropology Rachel Charlotte Smith and Ton Otto 3 Design and the Future: Temporal Politics of ‘Making a Difference’ Ramia Mazé 4 Different Presents in the Making
Mike Anusas and Rachel Harkness 5 The New Design Ethnographers 1968–1974: Towards a Critical Historiography of Design Anthropology Alison J. Clarke Section II Interventionist Speculations 6 Design Interventions as a Form of Inquiry Joachim Halse and Laura Boffi 7 Jostling Ethnography Between Design and Participatory Art Practices and the Collaborative Relations It Engenders George E. Marcus 8 Conversation Dispositifs: Towards a Transdisciplinary Design Anthropological Approach Zoy Anastassakis and Barbara Szaniecki 9 The Irony of Drones for Foraging: Exploring the Work of Speculative Interventions Carl DiSalvo Section III Collaborative Formation of Issues 10 Para-Ethnography 2.0: An Experiment in Design Anthropological Collaboration Kasper Tang Vangkilde and Morten Hulvej Rod 11 Design Anthropology On the Fly: Performative Spontaneity in Commercial Ethnographic Research Brendon Clark and Melissa L. Caldwell 12 Politics of Inviting: Co-Articulations of Issues in Designerly Public Engagement Kristina Lindström and Åsa Ståhl 13 Collaboratively Cleaning, Archiving and Curating the Heritage of the Future Adam Drazin, Robert Knowles, Isabel Bredenbröker and Anais Bloch Section IV Engaging Things 14 Design Anthropological Frictions: Mundane Practices meet Speculative Critique Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard and Laurens Boer 15 Things as Co-Ethnographers: Implications of a Thing Perspective for Design and Anthropology Elisa Giaccardi, Chris Speed, Nazli Cila and Melissa L. Caldwell 16 Design Anthropology as Ontological Exploration and Inter-Species Engagement Tau Ulv Lenskjold and Sissel Olander 17 The Things We Do: Encountering the Possible Thomas Binder Index