Design Anthropology

Alison J. Clarke is professor of design history and theory, and director of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

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.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction1 Susanne Küchler - 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