Design Dispersed: Design History, Design Practice and Anthropology

摘要

This special issue is part of a rising tide of literature dedicated to design in the discipline of anthropology. In this publication, we respond supportively to Lucy Suchman's call that'[…] we need less a reinvented anthropology as (or for) design than a critical anthropology of design'. Arriving at this academic moment entails at least two scholarly trajectories that have been hitherto distinct, concerning how anthropology has engaged with design history on the one hand, and with design practice on the other.