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The Social Life of Concepts in Design Anthropology. Adam Drazfn. (Trans)forming Knowledge and Design Concepts in the Design Workshop. Mette Gis/ev Kjrersgaard. Tools and Movements of Engagement: Design Anthropology's Style of Knowing.
Culture is understood here in its wide anthropological and sociological sense; by the subjects of culture, the author means individual producers, informal groups and social movements, NGOs, subjects of social economics, etc.
In the history of the social sciences there has always been a sociology of cul-ture. Whether it had been called the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of art, the sociology of religion, or the sociology of ideology, many sociologists paid respect to the significant effects of collective meanings.
9 paź 2003 · Download Citation | The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology | This book presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and...
Anthropologists’ postmodern self-critique has influenced social scientists and ethnography has increasingly become a way to explore our forms of life. This translates into a perspective that responds to ethical, political, cultural, and social concerns about the production of knowledge.
In this vein Gatt and Ingold (2013) propose “an anthropology by means of design” in which ethnographers, embracing their own expertise and skills, proceed alongside the people they study, rather than at some remove, intentionally and purposefully leaning into the realities that their presence is already helping to shape.
The AtD approach aims to generate anthropological knowledge of an emergent sociocultural phenomenon through the use of a design intervention. This article describes four intertwined tracksdFraming, Design Intervening, Ethnographic Particular Understanding, and Anthropological General Understandingdof our AtD process.
