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.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Materials and Design, Susanne Küchler (UCL, UK)2. Objects in Sociology, Harvey Molotch (NYU, USA)3. The Anthropological Object in Design: From Victor Papenek to Superstudio, Alison J. Clarke (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria)4. Valuable to Values: How "User Research" Ought to Change, Maria Bezaitis (Intel Corporation, USA) and Rick E. Robinson (University of Colorado, USA)5. Poetic Observation: What Designers Make of What They See, Jane Fulton Suri (IDEO, USA)6. Prototyping the Social: Temporality and Speculative Futures at the Intersection of Design and Culture, Jamer Hunt (Parsons School of Design, USA)7. Consuming IKEA and Inspiration as Material Form, Pauline Garvey (Maynooth University, Ireland)8. "Erotic Needlework": Vernacular Designs on the 21st-century Market, Nicolette Makovicky (University of Oxford)9. Functioning Forms / Anti-Design, Vladimir Arkhipov (Independent Artist)10. Coloring Cars: Customizing Motor Vehicles in the East of the Australian Western Desert, Diana Young, The University of Queensland, Australia)11. The Internet, the Parliament, and the Pub, Lane DeNicola (Emory College of Arts and Sciences, USA)12. Interior Decoration: Offline and Online, Daniel Miller (UCL, UK)13. Designing Financial Literacy in Haiti, Erin B. Taylor and Heather A. Horst (Western Sydney University, Australia)14. Stirring the Anthropological Imagination: Ontological Design in Spaces of Transition, Arturo Escobar (University of North Carolina, USA)Index

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.