Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology

Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 07 May 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful, and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. This book offers new perspectives on the central issues of uncertainty and possibility and identifies new research methods that take advantage of disruptive and experimental techniques. Advancing a practical agenda for future-making, it reveals how uncertainty can be engaged as a generative 'technology for understanding, researching, and intervening in the world. Drawing on key themes in creative methodologies, such as making, essaying, inhabiting, and attuning, chapters explore contemporary sites of practice. The book looks at maker spaces and technology design, the imaginaries of architectural design, the temporalities of built cultural heritage, and interdisciplinary making and performing. Based on the authors' own academic work and their applied research with a range of different organizations, Uncertainty and Possibility outlines new opportunities for research and intervention. It is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in design anthropology and human-centred design.

Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful, and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis. This book offers new perspectives on the central issues of uncertainty and possibility and identifies new research methods that take advantage of disruptive and experimental techniques. Advancing a practical agenda for future-making, it reveals how uncertainty can be engaged as a generative 'technology for understanding, researching, and intervening in the world. Drawing on key themes in creative methodologies, such as making, essaying, inhabiting, and attuning, chapters explore contemporary sites of practice. The book looks at maker spaces and technology design, the imaginaries of architectural design, the temporalities of built cultural heritage, and interdisciplinary making and performing. Based on the authors' own academic work and their applied research with a range of different organizations, Uncertainty and Possibility outlines new opportunities for research and intervention. It is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in design anthropology and human-centred design.

Weight: 270g
Dimension: 198 x 234 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350002715