Sarah Pink

Shanti Sumartojo

Yoko Akama

New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology

Uncertainty and Possibility

Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.This book offers new perspectives on the central issues of uncertainty and possibility, and identifies new research methods which take advantage of disruptive and experimental techniques. Advancing a practical agenda for future making, it reveals how uncertainty can be engaged as a generative ‘technology’ for understanding, researching and intervening in the world. Drawing on key themes in creative methodologies, such as making, essaying, inhabiting and attuning, chapters explore contemporary sites of practice. The book looks at maker spaces and technology design, the imaginaries of architectural design, the temporalities of built cultural heritage, and interdisciplinary making and performing. Based on the authors' own academic work and their applied research with a range of different organizations, Uncertainty and Possibility outlines new opportunities for research and intervention. It is essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners in design anthropology and human-centred design.

Reframing commemoration at the end of the First World War centenary : new approaches and case studies / Shanti Sumartojo -- 11 November 2018 : Liège, Mons and Brussels commemorate the Great War / Chantal Kesteloot and Laurence van Ypersele -- 2018 Armistice Day in Flanders Fields : how complex is commemoration at the end of an era? / Dominique Vanneste and Gregory Ramshaw -- Vienna, November 7-10, 2018 : a four-day journey into public commemorations of November 1918 in the Austrian republic / Olivier Luminet -- The role of a politics of memory and the digital, in reframing the commemoration of Polish Independence / Danielle Drozdzewski -- Remembrance, participation, (re)emergence : Washington's National Cathedral, 11 November 2018 / Jeremy Foster -- Pozières : the never-ending war on the Somme / Caroline Winter -- The sound of the cow : observing Remembrance Day in New Delhi / Peter Stanley -- Observing silence : experiential reflections on the 11 November 2018 Armistice Day commemorations in London / James Wallis -- Pages of the sea : a UK case study / Emma Hanna -- Memorial chairs and transitory fictive kinship in the centenary commemoration of the end of the First World War / Kingsley Baird -- Flowers of war : 11 November 2018 at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance / Shanti Sumartojo -- Just like being there : technologies of reconstructed experience and First World War commemoration / Katherine Smits -- To be or not to be Danish? : commemorating the First World War in Denmark on 11 November 2018 / David C. Harvey -- The 10 November 2018 Indian commemoration in Villers-Guislains in the north of France : atmosphere and the experience of alterity / Anne Hertzog and Rafiq Pirzada -- What is still known about 11 November 1918 by German-speaking Belgians? / Christin Camia, Clara Falys, Jelena Scheider and Olivier LuminetInde.

Commemoration and the First World War Centenary

Experiencing 11 November 2018

Yolande Strengers

Vaike Fors

Debora Lanzeni

Melisa Duque

This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice and engagement. The authors, specialising in design ethnography across the fields of anthropology, sociology, human geography, pedagogy and design research, draw on their extensive international experience of collaborating with engineers, designers, creative practitioners and specialists from other fields. They call for, and demonstrate the benefits of, ethnographic and conceptual attention to design as part of our personal and public everyday lives, society, institutions and activism. Design Ethnography is essential reading for researchers, scholars and students seeking to reshape the way we research, live and design ethically and responsibly into yet unknown futures.

Research, Responsibilities, and Futures

Design Ethnography

Edgar Gómez Cruz

This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. The contributors explore how new and evolving digital-visual technologies and techniques have been utilized in the development of research, and reflect on how such theory and practice might advance what is “knowable” in a world of smartphones, drones, and 360-degree cameras.

Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research

This book advocates an approach to lighting design that focuses on how people experience illumination. Lighting Design in Shared Public Spaces contextualises light, dark and lighting design within the settings, sensations, ideas and imaginaries that form our understandings of ourselves and the world around us. The chapters in this collection bring a new perspective to lighting design, arguing for an approach that addresses how lighting is experienced, understood and valued by people. Across a range of new case studies from Australia, Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, the authors account for lighting design’s crucial role in shaping our dynamic and messy experiential worlds. With many turning to innovative ethnographic methodologies, they powerfully demonstrate how feelings of comfort, safety, security, vulnerability, care and well-being can configure in and through how people experience and manipulate light and dark. By focusing on how lighting is improvised, arranged, avoided and composed in relation to the people and things it acts upon, the book advances understandings of lighting design by showing how improved experiences of the built environment can result from more sensitive and context-specific illumination. The book is intended for social scientists who are interested in the lit or sensory world, as well as designers, architects, urban planners and others concerned with how the experience of light, dark and lighting might be both better understood and implemented in our shared public spaces.

Shanti Sumartojo

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