Full Description
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.
Contents
AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction1 Susanne Kuchler - Materials and Design2 Harvey Molotch - Objects in Sociology3 Alison J. Clarke - The Anthropological Object in Design4 Maria Bezaitis and Rick E. Robinson - Valuable to Values5 Jane Fulton Suri - Poetic Observation6 Jamer Hunt - Prototyping the Social7 Pauline Garvey - Consuming IKEA and Inspiration as Material Form8 Nicolette Makovicky -'Erotic Needlework'9 Vladimir Arkhipov - Functioning Forms / Anti-Design10 Diana Young - Coloring Cars11 Lane DeNicola - The Internet, the Parliament, and the Pub12 Daniel Miller - Interior Decoration13 Erin B. Taylor and Heather A. Horst - Designing Financial Literacy in Haiti14 Arturo Escobar - Stirring the Anthropological ImaginationIndex
-
- 和書
- タロット
