Uncertainty and Possibility

New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology

By: Sarah Pink, Yoko Akama, Shanti Sumartojo

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Hardcover | 22 February 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.

This book offers new perspectives on the central issues of uncertainty and possibility, and identifies new research methods which take advantage of disruptive and experimental techniques. Advancing a practical agenda for future making, it reveals how uncertainty can be engaged as a generative 'technology' for understanding, researching and intervening in the world. Drawing on key themes in creative methodologies, such as making, essaying, inhabiting and attuning, chapters explore contemporary sites of practice. The book looks at maker spaces and technology design, the imaginaries of architectural design, the temporalities of built cultural heritage, and interdisciplinary making and performing.

Based on the authors' own academic work and their applied research with a range of different organizations, Uncertainty and Possibility outlines new opportunities for research and intervention. It is essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners in design anthropology and human-centred design.

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Uncertainty and Possibility turns every commonplace of design on its head. Eschewing a design process based on controls and predictions, the authors advocate designing with others through deeply immersive and performative practices. Instead of results, they seek knowledge. They identify visible and invisible sources of insight gleaned from bodies, feelings, stories, and even the tools of observation themselves. In short, they model how to design with, not against, the unpredictable nature of existence today.
Susan Yelavich, Parsons School of Design, USA

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