Call forAbstracts
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Call forAbstracts
AnthropologicalAgendas for Design Engagements
A workshopto be held at EASA 2008
(EuropeanAssociation of Social Anthropologists,
26-30 August2008, Ljubliana, Slovenia,
Workshop No.W092)
Convenors: Adam Drazin (National University ofIreland Maynooth, [log in to unmask]);
Simon Roberts
(Intel Corporation, [log in to unmask])
Abstracts tobe submitted by 31 March 2008 via the EASA website:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=331
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Anthropologyis increasingly an engaged practice, but remains more aware of policy thandesign intervention possibilities. The session aims to define and criticallyreflect on anthropological agendas for making changes or designinginterventions in the worlds of informants and their communities.
Aperception of fixity of the anthropological subject is epitomised infieldworkers' attitudes to the material world. Anthropology is increasingly anengaged practice, and yet most practitioners, while highly aware of mutualresponsibilities to inform policy development when it affects their informants,are less aware of diverse possibilities for specific design engagement withmateriality, practices, interactions and services.
Thissession proposes that every anthropologist should be aware of the opportunityto collaboratively develop suggestions to change the material worlds ofinformants; and also aware of the problems and pitfalls of such exercises. Manywell-conducted and consensual ethnographies are capable of critically-informedexplorations: problem statements, identifying design spaces, or making designrecommendations. Design anthropology is envisaged here not as a distinct fieldbut a parallel practice which is potentially applicable in any mainstreamanthropological situation, and conducted in an interpretive not positivisticparadigm.
Suchactivity positions the anthropologist with a sense of interpretive advocacy asregards the physical wellness, social wellbeing and material environments ofinformants. It also involves questions of mutuality in envisioning futures andappropriate value.
We invite
research papers, demonstrations and critical commentaries which define and
reflect on anthropological agendas for the embodied and material worlds of
informants and communities. Suitable topics may include design anthropology,
creativity and property, physical wellness, materialising intention, notions of
advocacy, applications of anthropology, and the methodology of the
anthropological process.
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Proposals
for Papers should be submitted by 31 March 2008 via the EASA08 Website <http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5>
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