BAARS:'Care' in Design's New Knowledge Economies

1 February 2023, 1.00 PM - 1 February 2023, 2.00 PM

Adam Drazin, UCL

In the contemporary world, anthropologists and ethnographers are constantly helping to shape the products and services around us by undertaking ethnographies and social research globally. The currency which these design researchers deal in is information about people and communities, their identities, routines, material worlds and interests. This talk explores the outputs of design research work in collaborations between anthropology and design, and argues that design constitutes a new mode of relatedness within a global knowledge economy. The implication is that anthropology needs to develop new approaches to the concepts of ‘care’ and of ‘alterity’, and to recognise its own growing role in forming design-based communities.


Please join in for an informal lunch with the presenter, staff and students beforehand 12.00 to 13.00 – bring your own lunch. Non-alcoholic drinks, nibbles and tea/coffee with biscuits are provided. All welcome!)

Location: G10, Department for Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol 43, Woodland Road, BS8 1UU, ground floor.
Access information: https://www.accessable.co.uk/university-of-bristol/access-guides/43-woodland-road

Contact information

Conveners: Theresia Hofer (Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology) and William Tantam (Lecturer in Anthropology)

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