The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these two fields and their current state, outlining key concepts and current debates as well as positing directions for future practice and research.
Bringing together original work from a diverse group of established and emerging professionals, this volume joins a wider conversation about the trajectory of this transdisciplinary movement inspired by the continuing evolution of anthropology and design as they have adapted to accelerating and unpredictable conditions in arenas that span sectors, economies, socio-cultural groups, and geographies. It homes in on both the growing convergence and tensions between them while exploring how individuals from both fields have found ways of mixing, experimenting, and evolving theory and new forms of practice, highlighting the experimental theories and practices their transdisciplinarity has generated.
The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design is a valuable reference tool for practitioners, scholars, and upper-level students in the fields of anthropology and design as well as related disciplines.
The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these two fields and their current state, outlining key concepts and current debates as well as positing directions for future practice and research.
Foreword Kevin Bethune; Introduction - Jenessa Mae Spears and
Christine Z Miller; Section 1: Design + Anthropology Foundations;
Introduction - Christine Z Miller and Jenessa Mae Spears;
1. Systems,
Complexity, and Human Experience in Design Anthropology: From
User-Centeredness to User Ecosystem Thinking - Benjamin Chesluk and Michael
Youngblood;
2. The Dance of the Practitioner of Design Anthropology Anna
Kirah;
3. The Many Meanings of Design Anthropology Brandon Meyer;
4.
Gentrification Goes Big Box: The Role of Designers in Curating the Aesthetics
of Neighborhood Change and their Mobilization to the Mass Market Lisa
Berglund;
5. Participatory Design and Action Research: Notes on an Unfinished
Agenda in Design Anthropology Kendall House;
6. Ethics of the Possible:
Learning Design Anthropology with the Field - Raquel Gomes Noronha and Edson
José Carpintero Rezende;
7. Tactics for Anthropology + Design Beyond the
Academic & Applied Binary - Angela K. VandenBroek;
8. From Classroom Learning
to Client Experience - Susan Squires; Section 2: Praxis Projects & Case
Studies; Introduction Jenessa Mae Spears and Christine Z Miller;
9. From
Silent Enablers to Powerful Practices: Reflections on Design Staples in the
Ethnographic Field - Manisha Dikshit, Antonella Fabri, Laurent Mertz, Letizia
Nardi, and Patricia Sunderland;
10. Designing a Digital Archive for Bodo and
Dimasa Indigenous Communities - Monali Longmailai, Bihung Brahma, Krithika
Barman, and Christina Wasson;
11. From Design Research to Design Anthropology
- Camille Mançon;
12. How to do Robotics with Words: Language and Prospective
Ethics in Design Anthropological Approaches to Emergent Hardware - Lora
Koycheva;
13. Pain Points and Personality: Bringing Anthropology to
Conversational UX Design - Elizabeth A. Rodwell;
14. Making Design with
Anthropology, at the Confluence of Research and Life - Zoy Anastassakis;
15.
A Design-inspired Approach Towards Innovative Ethics Education in STEM -
Christine Z Miller, Elisabeth Hildt, Kelly Laas, and Eric Brey;
16.
Ethnography in the Mode of Design Anthropology: A Field Report - Isabella
Kölz;
17. The Capabilities Approach and the Blindspot in Commerce-Centered
Design - Scott Boylston;
18. Confessions of an Organizational Change Agent -
Helga Wild;
19. Participatory Design and Radical Games: Mapping the Future of
Tech with Queer Youth - Kendall Roark and Ashlyn Sparrow;
20. Design
Anthropology and Transformative Change: A Climate Action Case Study - Emma Jo
Aiken-Klar and Ruth Silver; Section 3: Opportunities, Speculations, &
Emerging Potentialities; Introduction - Christine Z Miller and Jenessa Mae
Spears;
21. Neither an Axe nor A Tree: The Applied Ethnographers Role in
Future Thinking Inside the Modern Corporation - Sam Ladner;
22. (Dis)embodied
Rationality? Behavioral Designs Mind-body Problem - Ruth Schmidt;
23.
Embodying Change: Trauma-Informed Design, Human-Centered Design Alissa
Millenson;
24. Experiences Practicing Design and Anthropology in the
Workplace: Applying Transformational Approaches to Traditional Business
Models - Kay Zagrodny Barkley;
25. Future-Making: Strategy Design as Vital
Design Evolution Wendy Manning;
26. Transformative Innovation through
Culture and Design Bruce A. Claxton;
27. Design Anthropology by
Co-Becoming: Reimagining Participation in the Pursuit of New Possibilities
Matt Artz;
28. Playing Strategist: Follow the Yellow Brick Road Jason
TOGA Trew; 4: Conclusion Christine Z Miller and Jenessa Mae Spears.
Jenessa Mae Spears is a practicing cultural and medical anthropologist and portfolio manager at Consilience Group, LLC, a mission-driven systems transformation firm committed to the wellbeing of all people and communities. She maintains a commitment to praxis, serving as a University of Memphis Anthropology Department Community Advisory Board Co-Chair and Tennessee Young Child Wellness Council Data Action Team Chair. Jenessa was awarded the University of Memphis Distinguished Alumni Award in Anthropology in spring 2022.
Christine Z Miller is a design educator, researcher, and author working at the intersection of anthropology, design, and business. Her doctoral research combined these perspectives in an ethnographic study of the relationship between innovation and formalization. Christine studies innovation in sociotechnical systems and factors influencing the design, diffusion, adoption, and adaptation of new products, processes, and technologies. She is Professor of Design Management at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).
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