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Record Nr.

UNINA9910433230103321

Autore

Müller Francis

Titolo

Design ethnography : epistemology and methodology / / Francis Müller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2021

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-60396-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 93 p.) : 1 illus

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Anthropology, , 2195-0806

Classificazione

ARC004000COM018000SOC002000

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Ethnology - Research

Design

Application software

Ethnography

Design, general

Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Blind Spot -- Chapter 3. The Everyday World and Intersubjectivity -- Chapter 4. Design Research: Immersion and Intervention -- Chapter 5. Methods and Aspects of Field Research -- Chapter 6. Analysis -- Chapter 7. Representation and reporting -- Chapter 8. Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of reflection and explication, it strengthens the discipline of design and makes it more open to interdisciplinary dialogue. Through the use of the ethnographic method in design, this book shows how design researchers can question the certainties of the everyday world, deconstruct reality into singular aesthetic and semantic phenomena, and reconfigure them into new contexts of signification. It shows that design ethnography is a



process in which the epistemic and creative elements flow into one another in iterative loops. The goal of design ethnography is not to colonize the discipline of design with a positivist and objectivist scientific ethos, but rather to reinforce and reflect upon the explorative and searching methods that are inherent to it. This innovative book is of interest to design researchers and professionals, including graphic artists, ethnographers, visual anthropologists and others involved with creative arts/media. .