Thing Ethnography
Doing Design Research with Non-Humans
E Giaccardi (TU Delft - Human Technology Relations)
N Cila (Hogeschool van Amsterdam)
C.J. Speed (The University of Edinburgh)
Melissa Caldwell (University of California)
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Abstract
Drawing from a study of everyday home practices from a material objects' perspective, this paper examines the potential that a thing ethnography holds for both design and anthropology. In doing so, the paper challenges anthropocentric assumptions about the world, and opens up ways of understanding relationships among people, objects and use practices that would be difficult to elicit through traditional observations and interviews alone.
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