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Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology
Author: Sarah Pink
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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. **Review Uncertainty and Possibility turns every commonplace of design on its head. Eschewing a design process based on controls and predictions, the authors advocate designing with others through deeply immersive and performative practices. Instead of results, they seek knowledge. They identify visible and invisible sources of insight gleaned from bodies, feelings, stories, and even the tools of observation themselves. In short, they model how to design with, not against, the unpredictable nature of existence today. * Susan Yelavich, Parsons School of Design, USA * Reworking the inherent uncertainty of all change-making practices - conceptualising it as a generative technology rather than a threatening obstacle - this book provides a much welcome and enriching contribution to design anthropology. Theoretically informed and methodologically innovative, it particularly explores the workshop as an interdisciplinary approach that harnesses the possibilities of uncertainty in processes of future-making. As such, the bookIt will not only be of great interest to design anthropologists but also at the forefront of more interventionist approaches in anthropology at large. * Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Aarhus University, Denmark * About the Author Yoko Akama is Associate Professor in the School of Design and co-leader of the Design+Ethnography+Futures research program at RMIT University, Australia. Sarah Pink is Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication and co-leader of the Design+Ethnography+Futures research program at RMIT University, Australia. Shanti Sumartojo is Vice-Chancellors Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication, based in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Australia.
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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. **Review Uncertainty and Possibility turns every commonplace of design on its head. Eschewing a design process based on controls and predictions, the authors advocate designing with others through deeply immersive and performative practices. Instead of results, they seek knowledge. They identify visible and invisible sources of insight gleaned from bodies, feelings, stories, and even the tools of observation themselves. In short, they model how to design with, not against, the unpredictable nature of existence today. * Susan Yelavich, Parsons School of Design, USA * Reworking the inherent uncertainty of all change-making practices - conceptualising it as a generative technology rather than a threatening obstacle - this book provides a much welcome and enriching contribution to design anthropology. Theoretically informed and methodologically innovative, it particularly explores the workshop as an interdisciplinary approach that harnesses the possibilities of uncertainty in processes of future-making. As such, the bookIt will not only be of great interest to design anthropologists but also at the forefront of more interventionist approaches in anthropology at large. * Kasper Tang Vangkilde, Aarhus University, Denmark * About the Author Yoko Akama is Associate Professor in the School of Design and co-leader of the Design+Ethnography+Futures research program at RMIT University, Australia. Sarah Pink is Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication and co-leader of the Design+Ethnography+Futures research program at RMIT University, Australia. Shanti Sumartojo is Vice-Chancellors Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communication, based in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University, Australia.
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