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Design Anthropological Futures
Rachel Et Al Smith
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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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474280600
SKU
V9781474280600
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Ref
99-1
About Rachel Et Al Smith
Rachel Charlotte Smith is Assistant Professor of Design Anthropology at the Centre for Participatory Information Technology (PIT), Aarhus University, Denmark Kasper Tang Vangkilde is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark Mette Gislev Kjaersgaard is Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Ton Otto is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, ... Read more
Reviews for Design Anthropological Futures
This immensely rich anthology brings together three terms that have traditionally been kept apart. In so doing it enriches all three, highlighting in particular how design and anthropology can conjoin in the active and collaborative unfolding of social possibilities.
Clive Dilnot, Parsons The New School for Design, USA This unique collection serves as an invitation to anyone interested in ... Read more
Clive Dilnot, Parsons The New School for Design, USA This unique collection serves as an invitation to anyone interested in ... Read more