Part Six: Designs for Applied Anthropology

Designs for Applied Anthropology 

 

CHAIR: FISHER, Josh (WWU) 

 

ZHANG, Shaozeng (OR State U) Participatory Design of “Smart Forest” in the Brazilian Amazon Using Smart Phones, Apps, Algorithms and Ethnographic Methods 

 

KIESSLING, Brittany and MAXWELL, Keely (EPA) Designing an Applied Anthropology for Government Institutions 

 

RIOS, Jodi (UC Davis) Undisciplining Research: The Opportunities and Limitations of a DesignThinking Approach 

 

FISHER, Josh (WWU) and NADING, Alex (Brown U) Designs for Buen Vivir: Toward a Cohort-Model of Participatory Research 

 

DISCUSSANT: ESCOBAR, Arturo (UNCCH)

 

Designs for Applied Anthropology. Design has long occupied anthropological practice. From research to writing and teaching to intervention, design is the bridge between matter and form, vision and reality. The term calls to mind the creative capacity of human beings to build and negotiate the diverse worlds. This panel belongs to the special track, “Designs for Turbulent Times,” that seeks to rethink the application of anthropology as less concerned with producing forms and things for the world as it is, and more with engaging worlds and world-making practices that may come to be. Topics include: development, the commons, pedagogy, activism, and “applied” anthropology.

 

Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.