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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Alison J. Clarke -- Design Anthropology: The Shape of the Field -- Part I DESIGNERS GO NATIVE -- 1. Jane Fulton Suri -- Poetic Observation: -- What Designers Make of What They See -- 2. Keith Murphy -- The Anthropology of Designers: Politics and Style -- 3. Jamer Hunt -- Prototyping the Social: -- Temporality and the Speculative Futures at the Intersection of Design Culture -- 4. Rama Gheerawo -- Socially Inclusive Design: Designing Ethnography in the Field -- Part II People, Objects and Entanglements -- 5. Alison J. Clarke -- The Anthropological Object in Design -- 6. Daniel Miller -- Designing Ourselves -- 7. Harvey Molotch -- Objects In Sociology -- 8. Diana Young -- Coloring Cars: Customizing Motor Vehicles in the East of the Australian -- Western Desert -- Part III Mutating Forms, Shifting Materialities -- 9. Susanne Küchler -- Materials and Design -- 6 -- 10. Pauline Garvey -- Consuming Ikea: Inspiration as Material Form -- 11. Nicolette Makovicky -- 'Erotic Needlework' -- Vernacular Designs on the 21st century Market -- 12. Vladimir Arkhipov -- Functioning Forms/Anti-Design -- Part IV Future Trajectories: Future Users -- 13. Heather Horst -- Digital Design Anthropology -- 14. Maria Bezaitis & Rick Robinson -- Valuable to Values: How 'User Research' Ought to Change -- 15. Lane Denicola -- The Digital as Para-World: -- Design, Anthropology and Information Technologies -- 16. Kathrina Dankl -- Design Welfare & the Moral Objects of Design -- 17. Vinay Venkatraman -- Frugal Digital Design: The Underworld of Brand Technologies in India. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Design -- Anthropological aspects.
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Design -- Anthropological aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Clarke, Alison J., editor.
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| Added Title |
Design anthropology (2017)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Design anthropology (2017). Design anthropology. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 9781474259040 (DLC) 2017043795 (OCoLC)1003854831 |
| ISBN |
9781474259057 (electronic book) |
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1474259057 (electronic book) |
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9781474259040 |
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1474259049 |
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