Some aspects and characteristics of design anthropology as a post-critical practise

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Abstract

In 2004, Bruno Latour asked; what has become of critique? He called on researchers
to develop modes of analyses and engagements that didn’t rest on debunking or
deconstruction (Latour 2004, p. 226). Through his extensive work Latour has tied
broad programmatic statements about critique and post-critique (Latour 2004, 2005, 2010) to the methodological aspects of conducting research (Latour 1997, 2005) specifically social research, and questioned the status of theories and methods. In this paper I attempt to tentatively articulate a post-critical design anthropological response to Latour’s methodological instructions.
Design anthropology, a still emergent transdisciplinary field, comprised by a
multiplicity of research practices, evidently can’t be engaged with as some coherent whole, nonetheless, design coupled with anthropology has already suggested some promising paths to articulate new forms of post-criticality.
The discussion in this paper will be staged around a co-design experiment, which
dealt with opening a dialogue among a group of youngsters in a library in
Copenhagen, members of staff, and a project manager from an urban renewal project. Through a recounting of the experiment, which was not in any way unequivocally successful, the paper seeks to characterize the post-critical as a practical, situated and experimental possibility; as the potentials that lie in producing specific material difference and situated alternatives distributed in time and space. The paper highlights knowing essentially as specific forms of eventuation, and points to the differences between experimental reasoning and commentary.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdatoaug. 2014
Antal sider14
StatusUdgivet - aug. 2014
BegivenhedThe Design Anthropological Futures Conference - CoDesign Research Center (CODE) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, the Contemporary Ethnography program at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, and SDU Design at the University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Danmark
Varighed: 13 aug. 201515 aug. 2015

Konference

KonferenceThe Design Anthropological Futures Conference
LokationCoDesign Research Center (CODE) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, the Contemporary Ethnography program at the Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, and SDU Design at the University of Southern Denmark
Land/OmrådeDanmark
ByCopenhagen
Periode13/08/201515/08/2015

Emneord

  • design anthropology
  • Co-design
  • post-criticality

Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed (KUV)

  • Nej

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