“Design Anthropology: Anthropology + Design” is a cross-disciplinary course that is set at the intersection of design and anthropology. This course offers a theoretical base and the practical opportunity on unpacking the understanding of practices, cultures, artifacts. In the first phase of the course students gain comparative theoretical knowledge on the theories and tools of design anthropology and co-design. In practice, the tools of co-creation, concepts such as undesign, anti-design, open design or critical design are going to be used as tools of understanding people and context, to mobilize new thoughts and perspectives. Throughout the semester the students connect with a community and build a design toolkit to strengthen their relationships with the community in the given cultural context.
Main objective of the course is to tap into the diverse possibilities at the intersection of design and anthropology. Via theoretically informed design interventions and in the wild explorations, students explore and deconstruct everyday issues of the selected communities and they increase awareness to the broader impact of this mutual relationship as auteurs and actors.