Design Anthropology as Social Design Process
Design Anthropology as Social Design Process
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设计人类学作为社会设计过程
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2018
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通讯作者：
Siobhan Gregory
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作者：
Siobhan Gregory
由于受过专业培训的设计师将他们的实践定位为社会变革的核心，他们带来了过程中的效率、技术专长、复杂的审美技能和高度脚本化的叙事。在底特律等经济困难的城市，创意专业人士被雇来帮助改造被描述为废弃、无序和“破败”的社区。这些社区的居民越来越多地被要求参加利益相关者会议，并设计承诺在这一过程中更大程度地包容和“发声”的特许状。这些活动和干预有时被定义为设计思维、以人为中心的设计或参与式设计。然而，作为设计者适应的、重新情境化的人类学方法，这些方法最终可能会削弱应用人类学调查的价值和理解。作者认为，设计人类学可以为“城市更新”背景下的设计和设计研究过程提供一种更深入、更扎实和更公平的方法。
As professionally trained designers position their practices as central to social change, they bring with them efficiency in process, technical expertise, sophisticated aesthetic skills, and highly scripted narratives. In economically challenged cities like Detroit, creative professionals are hired to help transform neighborhoods that are described as abandoned, disorderly, and “blighted”. Residents of these neighborhoods are increasingly asked to engage in stakeholder meetings and design charrettes that promise greater inclusion and “a voice” in the process. These activities and interventions are sometimes framed as Design Thinking, human-centered design, or participatory design. However, as designer-adapted, re-contextualized anthropological methods, these approaches may ultimately diminish the value and understanding of applied anthropological enquiry. The author argues that design anthropology can offer a deeper, more grounded, and more equitable approach to design and design research processes in contexts of “urban renewal.”