Description
| Product ID: | 9781138917996 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Design Anthropology in Context |
| Subtitle: | An Introduction to Design Materiality and Collaborative Thinking |
| Authors: | Author: Adam Drazin |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Industrial / commercial art & design, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book explores the broad territory of design anthropology, covering key approaches, ways of working and areas of debate and tension. Highlighting the importance of design as a topic in the study of contemporary culture, it is valuable reading for students and scholars of anthropology and design as well as practitioners. This book explores the broad territory of design anthropology, covering key approaches, ways of working and areas of debate and tension. It understands design as fundamentally human centred and argues for a design anthropology based primarily on collaboration and communication. Adam Drazin suggests the most important collaborative knowledges which design anthropology develops are heuristic, emerging as engagements between fieldwork sites and design studios. The chapters draw on material culture literature and include a wide range of examples of different projects and outputs. Highlighting the importance of design as a topic in the study of contemporary culture, this is valuable reading for students and scholars of anthropology and design as well as practitioners. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-12-30 |
