Research Catalog

Title

Making homes : ethnography and design / Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Roxana Moroşanu, Val Mitchell and Tracy Bhamra.

Author

Pink, Sarah

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Leder Mackley, Kerstin
• Moroşanu, Roxana
• Mitchell, Val
• Bhamra, Tracy

Description

xiii, 155 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches to research and intervention in the home. Presenting a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for both ethnographers and designers, the authors examine 'hot' topics - ranging from movements and mobilities to im/material environments, to digital culture - and confront the challenges of a research and design environment which seeks to bring about the changes required for a sustainable, resilient, 'safe', and comfortable future. Written by leading experts in the field, the book draws on real-life examples from a wide range of international projects developed by the authors, other researchers, and designers. Illustrations throughout help to convey the methods and research visually. Readers will also have access to a related website which follows the authors' ongoing research and includes video and written narrative examples of ethnographic research in the home. Transforming current understandings of the home, this is an essential read for students and researchers in fields such as design, anthropology, human geography, sociology, and media and communication studies"--

Series Statement

Home, 2398-3191

Uniform Title

Home.

Subjects

• Design > Anthropological aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
• DESIGN / History & Criticism
• Dwellings > Design and construction
• Dwellings > Social aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- List of Authors -- Acknowledgments Series Preface: Why Home? -- Rosie Cox, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Victor Buchli, University College London, UK 1. Design, Ethnography and Homes -- 2. Temporalities -- 3. Environments -- 4. Activity and Movement -- 5. Methods for Researching Homes -- 6. Homes in Translation Index.

ISBN

• 9781474239158
• 1474239153
• 9781474239141
• 1474239145
• 9781474239196 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781474239172 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2017005071
• 40027230031

OCLC

• ocn984973576
• 984973576
• SCSB-5892426

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries