TY  - BOOK
AU  - Müller, Francis
AB  - This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of reflection and explication, it strengthens the discipline of design and makes it more open to interdisciplinary dialogue. Through the use of the ethnographic method in design, this book shows how design researchers can question the certainties of the everyday world, deconstruct reality into singular aesthetic and semantic phenomena, and reconfigure them into new contexts of signification. It shows that design ethnography is a process in which the epistemic and creative elements flow into one another in iterative loops. The goal of design ethnography is not to colonize the discipline of design with a positivist and objectivist scientific ethos, but rather to reinforce and reflect upon the explorative and searching methods that are inherent to it. This innovative book is of interest to design researchers and professionals, including graphic artists, ethnographers, visual anthropologists and others involved with creative arts/media.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-60396-0
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210113_9783030603960_21
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46115
ID  - OAPEN ID: 51330
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Design, general
KW  - Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
KW  - Design
KW  - Computer and Information Systems Applications
KW  - Blind Spot
KW  - Design Ethnography
KW  - Design Research
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Ethnographic Interview
KW  - Ethnographic Observation
KW  - Intervention
KW  - Participative Action Research
KW  - Visual Ethnography
KW  - Open Access
KW  - Social & cultural anthropology
KW  - Fine arts: art forms
KW  - Computer applications in the arts & humanities
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46115/1/2021_Book_DesignEthnography.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34449
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2021
TI  - Design Ethnography : Epistemology and Methodology
ER  - 
