Digital Materialities: Design and Anthropology

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ISBN 10: 1472592565 / ISBN 13: 9781472592569

Published by Routledge, 2016

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La distinción entre lo digital y el mundo material se vuelve cada vez más difusa provocando un cambio en las formas de diseñar y su evolución. ¿Cómo podemos colaborar con las tecnologías digitales para tomar decisiones sostenibles, saludables y significativas, tanto ahora como en el futuro? Digital Materialities presenta doce capítulos escritos por académicos y profesionales del diseño y la investigación digital de Reino Unido, España, Australia y EE.UU. Dividido en 3 partes, el libro parte de la teoría a la práctica: cómo se mueven las diferentes materialidades digitales, la emulación del software, cómo son y funcionan los nuevos diseños digitales, etc. Un libro pionero para estudiantes y estudiosos de la antropología digital.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digital Materialities: Design and Anthropology
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472592565
• ISBN 13: 9781472592569
• Binding: Encuadernación de tapa blanda
• Edition: 1ª Edición
• Condition: Nuevo
• Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo
• Seller catalogs:
  • DISEÑO DIGITAL

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Synopsis

As the distinction between the digital and the material world becomes increasingly blurred, the ways in which we think about design are also shifting and evolving. How can the human, digital and material be brought together to intervene in the world? What constitutes our digital-material environments? How can we engage with digital technologies to make sustainable, healthy and meaningful decisions, both now and in the future? Digital Materialities presents twelve chapters by scholars and practitioners working at the intersection between design and digital research in the UK, Spain, Australia and the USA. By incorporating in-depth understandings of the digital-material world from both the social sciences and design, the book considers how this combined knowledge might advance our capacity to design for the future. Divided into three parts, the focus of the book moves from the theoretical to the practical: how different digital materialities are imagined and emerge, through software emulation, urban sensors and smart homes; how new digital designs are sparked through collaborations between social scientists and designers; and finally, how digital design emerges from the insider work of everyday designers. A fascinating, ground-breaking book for students and scholars of digital anthropology, media and communication, and anyone interested in the future of digital design.

About the Author

Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Media Ethnography at RMIT University, Australia.Elisenda Ardèvol is Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the Open University of Catalonia, Spain.Dèbora Lanzeni is Researcher at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Open University of Catalonia, Spain.