Interventions, design, and the many modalities of future-oriented anthropology
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This paper discusses the possibilities and limits of research through interventions and co-creative projects aimed at outputs beyond the verbal and written. This interventionist stance has been integral to- and promoted by design anthropologists (Otto & Smith 2013, Pink et al. 2016), arguing that ethnography and design is a collaboration in/with implications for the formation of people's future(s). Based on ethnographic explorations of the experience of designing a platform for the Internet of Things market in Europe (Lanzeni) and filmmaking and designing a web platform-cum-exhibition in the ARTlife project: Articulations of Life among Afghans in Denmark (Waltorp), we question each other - What does the interventionist stance make possible? What does 'research-through-making-together' offer in comparison with more classic forms of participant observation and ethnographic fieldwork? We think of this as part of a 'Design Anthropology beyond a concern with stabilised objects, artefact and procedures...a way of doing anthropology in the midst of social and material transformation'. We argue from these two very different cases of 'works-in-the-making' which we will share in their current state of becoming.
Original language | English |
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Publication date | 2018 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 4th International Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute: Art, Materiality and Representation: Design Anthropology panel - British Museum & SOAS, London, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Jun 2018 → 3 Jun 2018 Conference number: 4 https://therai.org.uk/conferences/art-materiality-and-representation |
Conference
Conference | 4th International Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute |
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Number | 4 |
Location | British Museum & SOAS |
Country | United Kingdom |
City | London |
Period | 01/06/2018 → 03/06/2018 |
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Links
- https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6119
Final published version
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