Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 12:00pm to Friday, March 17, 2023 - 2:00pm
Design Anthropology: Critical Speculations
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Online 16–17 March 2023
17.00–19.00 CET
12:00-2:00PM EST
University of Applied Arts Vienna and The New School for Social Research, New York
Design Anthropology: Critical Speculations, is co-convened by Alison J. Clarke, Professor of Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna and Shannon Mattern, Professor of Media & Art History at the University of Pennsylvania. A creative collaboration between the Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Anthropology department of the New School for Social Research, New York. As we face intersecting global crises of climate emergency and public health, financial inequalities and challenges to democratic process, the need for collaboration between anthropologists and designers to make conscientious interventions takes on a renewed urgency. This international, transdisciplinary symposium draws on critical design politics of re-purposing design ‘for the real world’ by focusing on anthropological and design research methods that open up new epistemological and creative possibilities, further illuminating our lived experiences and imaginations.