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Zusatztext In recent decades designers have armed themselves with ethnographic methods, left the creative studio, and ventured out into the field. In a parallel movement, anthropologists have drawn unexpected insight from the designer’s task of structuring our common experience. This fascinating volume offers diverse perspectives on the affinities between these complementary fields. Informationen zum Autor Alison J. Clarke is Professor of Design History and Theory and founding Director of the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria. Vorwort A thoroughly revised new edition of a key text which considers the wide range of connections between design and anthropology. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction 1 Susanne Küchler - Materials and Design 2 Harvey Molotch - Objects in Sociology 3 Alison J. Clarke - The Anthropological Object in Design 4 Maria Bezaitis and Rick E. Robinson - Valuable to Values 5 Jane Fulton Suri - Poetic Observation 6 Jamer Hunt - Prototyping the Social 7 Pauline Garvey - Consuming IKEA and Inspiration as Material Form 8 Nicolette Makovicky - ‘Erotic Needlework’ 9 Vladimir Arkhipov - Functioning Forms / Anti-Design 10 Diana Young - Coloring Cars 11 Lane DeNicola - The Internet, the Parliament, and the Pub 12 Daniel Miller - Interior Decoration 13 Erin B. Taylor and Heather A. Horst - Designing Financial Literacy in Haiti 14 Arturo Escobar - Stirring the Anthropological ImaginationIndex...
