Diversity in Motion
There is a need for developing “communities of purpose” to create a supportive environment at the local level for migrant women in business.
Contemporary Chinese Design
The need for visual authenticity in a designed object can at times relegate it to a frozen …
Chinese Aesthetic Transculturation
“Poetry expresses human aspiration” – Shang Shu John Berger’s TV documentary on Ways of Seeing is worth …
Contemporary Indian Design
The philosophy or driving model behind the industrialised age was the promise of “equitable access” and “leveler …
Transcultural Indian Aesthetics
the aesthetic mode is an experience of the whole man and not a part of him. – …
Contemporary Zimbabwean Design
This week’s readings were both inspirational and quite depressing. Starvation taught me art, was a particularly gruesome …
Transcultural Zimbabwean Aesthetic
Culture is the continous reflective thread with which we weave our exprience… I really enjoyed reading ‘Shona’s …
Contemporary Designs of Australian Indigenous Artists
One of the focuses of Janke and Frankel’s paper was, airing the indigenous communities’ concerns, regarding the …
Australian Indigenous Aesthetics
It only requires one invention to initiate a representational tradition. The important issue is not the ability …
Appropriation and Misappropriation
The big theories are dead, the individual is dead, Culture/culture is dead, Art is dead. Shoot me …
Thinking with Things
“… that man’s desire finds its meaning in the desire of the other, not so much because …
A Reflective Pause…
“Philosophy is a homesickness of the mind. The exile misses many things: The loss of familiar signs …
Wicked Problems & Social Innovation
This presentation is based on an essay on Mindlab and innovation in the public sector. Click here …
Dialectics of Inspiration & Execution
“By Targeting the needs of groups who are marginalised by conventional design practices, Inclusive Design links to …
Seeding of a Practice: Design Anthropology’s European rise 1970s
Here are some of the questions that were asked during the Studio 54 Era in Design Anthroplogy …
Development of European design anthropology during the 90s
How can we engage with the user in meaningful ways? How would we define the framework for …
Contemporary Design Anthropology Practice(s) in Europe
What is culture? How do you define it? Can you define it? There seems to be two …
The Birth of Design Anthropology in USA 1970-1980s
Underlying question or “Big Question” at Xerox Parc during the 70s and 80s revolved around the term …
Baptême du feu: Design Anthropology’s baptism by Fire during the Dot Com Bust
During the Dotcom boom in the US, terms such as user-centred research entered the common vernacular of …
Contemporary Design Anthropology practices in USA
The development of Design Anthropology as a field in the US has been in the context of …