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Apr 25, 2024
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BST 251 - Design Thinking and Innovation4 credits
In recent years, ethnography has become popular with designers of products and technologies as a way of learning about the experience of the users. Students will have an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of the field. Since students come from a mix of anthropology, design, and other disciplinary backgrounds, they also learn to engage in cross-disciplinary collaboration. The purpose of this course is to learn and further develop a methodology for ethnographic research on design practices. Design Anthropology is a rapidly growing field, bridging academic and commercial interests in the diverse ways in which people make, circulate, and consume products. “Ethnography”—the methodological hallmark of cultural anthropology—is a major “buzzword” in corporate product-design and engineering firms, as their commercial interests demand a complex and rigorous understanding of “the user.”
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