Day 2: Wednesday 30. April 2022

Design Anthropology

The world works, the question is, can we make it work differently?
Is more about the knowing.
Ethno means from the Greek travelogue
Much comes from a colonialist background, travel reports from “conquests”.
Hence anthropology.
Reflected Openness (Goffman)
“Front and Back Stage” (Van Maanen)
Designers are cultural interpreters
You don't see everything, there is backstage, the reality
When interviewed, people don't always say what they do, observations are much more real "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" Anaïs Nin

Challenge:

to implement identity
Read the code of conduct of your own culture and consider how it behaves, this was entertaining when we mixed different groups
design process
studying what people do
There is a lot of information in an interview with observation with the questions