(Re)Thinking Design with New Materialism: Towards a Critical Anthropology of Design
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Autor:innen
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
12/2020
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
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Übergeordnetes Werk
Somatechnics
Themenheft
DOI der Originalpublikation
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
10
Ausgabe / Nummer
3
Seiten / Dauer
355-373
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
Edinburgh University Press
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Zusammenfassung
The article proposes an empirical and discursive understanding of design as engaging and intensifying uneven power relations. By affiliating with the ontological turn in anthropology, such re-defined reading of design acknowledges design's complicity with extractive capitalism while aiming to open up possibilities to think design otherwise. In recent years, inspired by the resurgence of materialism, abstract notions of design as mediating practice between human and environment have gained popularity. Yet, these more-than-human-centred design theories tend to obscure the material and immaterial infrastructures that still shape human and nonhuman realities. By utilising the example of sand's transformation into land and tracing its journey across sites, actors and continents, the infrastructures of planetary transformation – as well as what eludes them – are investigated. Turning matter into medium emphasises thresholds and ruptures in the human-material relationship and thus transcends both a socially constructed and material reading of reality. Through a historical and empirical relocation of the current more-than-human-centred design discourse, the research presented in this article aims to support the establishment of a critical anthropology of design.
Schlagwörter
Fachgebiet (DDC)
700
Veranstaltung
Startdatum der Ausstellung
Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
2044-0138
2044-0146
2044-0146
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Closed
Lizenz
Zitation
BÜSSE, Michaela, 2020. (Re)Thinking Design with New Materialism: Towards a Critical Anthropology of Design. Somatechnics. Dezember 2020. Bd. 10, Nr. 3, S. 355–373. DOI 10.3366/soma.2020.0327. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2020.0327