A Drazin
Biographic Data
| ID | 36466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Drazin |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Drazin |
| SIGNATURE | DRAZIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3862-9117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Design for and against digital anthropology
This chapter explores the historical entanglements between the development of digital technologies and the interdisciplinary field of design anthropology. Design anthropologists have played an important but often overlooked role in the design of digital artefacts like email and smartphones, which digital anthropologists frequently take as the focus of their research. Design anthropologists have participated in the process of designing these techn…
Cantarella, Luke, Christine Hegel, and George E. Marcus
Anthropos is the international journal of anthropology and linguistics, founded in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt, missonary and member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). Its main purpose is the study of human societies in their cultural dimension. In honor of Wilhelm Schmidt‘s legacy, the cultivation of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, and religious studies remain an essential component oft he Anthropos Institute – the organizational carrier…
Design Anthropology
This chapter outlines how the subfield now known as design anthropology has developed hand-in-hand with the study of the digital and with digital ways of working—one of many parallel fields concerned with computing. It evaluates some of the contributions to emerge. The chapter is predicated on the idea that every anthropologist needs to know more about this area, not only because we are all potentially implicated in it, but because we need to thi…
Design, Anthropology of
Design is an expanding and emerging topic for anthropological study. Its evasiveness as a cultural phenomenon, which some see as ubiquitous and some see as very limited and specific, necessitates careful handling but is also one of the reasons why it is an interesting cultural phenomenon. The study of design in anthropology originated in the study of graphical representation and graphical ways of thinking and developed into studies of the design …
Stuff
The cultural consideration of the material world increasingly involves not only recognition of material things in their diversity, many different things, but also ideas and concepts which frame the material world as a whole through particular paradigms. Stuff provides us with one of these sweeping paradigmatic interpretations of material culture, both a popular discourse and a set of academic frameworks. Stuff is about proliferating consumer good…
The fitness of persons in the landscape
The concept of isolation has dogged anthropological studies of rural Ireland. This paper re‐conceptualises isolation through ethnographic work undertaken on the minibuses run by Rural Transport projects in five counties of Ireland. Instead of seeing isolation as an embedded characteristic of Irish landscapes, histories or of the ageing body, the paper describes dynamic, shifting expectations of belonging and community. On the Rural Transport buse…
The Social Life of Materials
Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as ‘social’ yet the materials which comprise them are considered ‘raw’ or natural’. The Social Life of Materials proposes a new perspective in this interdisciplinary field. Diverting attention from the consumption of objects, the b…
Artefacts
When an idea is cast into the world, others are able to play with it, learn from it, expand, discuss, replicate or challenge it. The idea becomes shareable. EPIC Artefacts are a way to put ethnographic ideas out in the world. From research, design, and teaching tools, new methodologies, ways of thinking, and communicating, to finished products and films, the makers who created this year's artefacts push the boundaries of ethnographic production a…
Exploring Gypsiness
La mémoire en attente
Le parcours historique des collections ethnographiques irlandaises, historiquement les plus importantes, est inextricablement lié au passé colonialiste et post-colonialiste de l'Irlande. L'île occupe à cet égard une position tout à fait singulière. À une certaine époque, elle abrita en effet la seconde ville de l'Empire britannique, tout en figurant parmi les pays qui souffrirent le plus des effets catastrophiques de l'administration coloniale. L…
Dancing at the crossroads
Exploring Design Dialogues for Ageing in Place
Ethnographic work conducted by the Digital Health Group, Intel Ireland, explores the questions of how concepts of health and independence relate to peoples' lives in later life. This paper serves to present artistic approaches to the design of the material culture in elderly homes in Ireland, and aims to highlight and discuss the merits and problems of such approaches. Through writing 'in miniature' about specific experiences and homes, we propos…
An Exploration by Way of Introduction
Ireland, both North and South, has gained international prominence in recent years for the startling economic transformations it has achieved. Many governments study the example of the Republic of Ireland and attempt to learn the recipe of the ‘Irish Model’ in which, as implied in the quote above, technology and design play a part. Key elements in the narrative of Irish national transformation are manufacturing and processing plants, established …
Good Intentions
This paperlooks at the context of materialised memories-the consumption and framing of photographs. Ethnographic workin British homes unearthed diverse ways of consuming and displaying photos. We propose that these modes of framing mirror the relationships within and surrounding the household, andlocate themin short-hand time frames characteristic of the socialexchanges appropriate to those relationships. Through framing, people flag their collec…
Architecture Without Architects
This article argues that under certain circumstances, the building of modernist blocks can be seen as homemaking activity, comparable to domestic bricolage; although in most cases, this style has become linked with forms of social exploitation. The treatment of homemaking with respect to architecture tends to fall within two camps, those in which a building's structure is inalienably linked to identity, and those where homemaking primarily means …
Good Intentions
This paperlooks at the context of materialised memories-the consumption and framing of photographs. Ethnographic workin British homes unearthed diverse ways of consuming and displaying photos. We propose that these modes of framing mirror the relationships within and surrounding the household, andlocate themin short-hand time frames characteristic of the socialexchanges appropriate to those relationships. Through framing, people flag their collec…
Architecture Without Architects
This article argues that under certain circumstances, the building of modernist blocks can be seen as homemaking activity, comparable to domestic bricolage; although in most cases, this style has become linked with forms of social exploitation. The treatment of homemaking with respect to architecture tends to fall within two camps, those in which a building's structure is inalienably linked to identity, and those where homemaking primarily means …
Architecture Without Architects
This article argues that under certain circumstances, the building of modernist blocks can be seen as homemaking activity, comparable to domestic bricolage; although in most cases, this style has become linked with forms of social exploitation. The treatment of homemaking with respect to architecture tends to fall within two camps, those in which a building's structure is inalienably linked to identity, and those where homemaking primarily means …
Good Intentions
This paperlooks at the context of materialised memories-the consumption and framing of photographs. Ethnographic workin British homes unearthed diverse ways of consuming and displaying photos. We propose that these modes of framing mirror the relationships within and surrounding the household, andlocate themin short-hand time frames characteristic of the socialexchanges appropriate to those relationships. Through framing, people flag their collec…
Exploring Design Dialogues for Ageing in Place
Ethnographic work conducted by the Digital Health Group, Intel Ireland, explores the questions of how concepts of health and independence relate to peoples' lives in later life. This paper serves to present artistic approaches to the design of the material culture in elderly homes in Ireland, and aims to highlight and discuss the merits and problems of such approaches. Through writing 'in miniature' about specific experiences and homes, we propos…
An Exploration by Way of Introduction
Ireland, both North and South, has gained international prominence in recent years for the startling economic transformations it has achieved. Many governments study the example of the Republic of Ireland and attempt to learn the recipe of the ‘Irish Model’ in which, as implied in the quote above, technology and design play a part. Key elements in the narrative of Irish national transformation are manufacturing and processing plants, established …
Dancing at the crossroads
Exploring Gypsiness
La mémoire en attente
Le parcours historique des collections ethnographiques irlandaises, historiquement les plus importantes, est inextricablement lié au passé colonialiste et post-colonialiste de l'Irlande. L'île occupe à cet égard une position tout à fait singulière. À une certaine époque, elle abrita en effet la seconde ville de l'Empire britannique, tout en figurant parmi les pays qui souffrirent le plus des effets catastrophiques de l'administration coloniale. L…
Artefacts
When an idea is cast into the world, others are able to play with it, learn from it, expand, discuss, replicate or challenge it. The idea becomes shareable. EPIC Artefacts are a way to put ethnographic ideas out in the world. From research, design, and teaching tools, new methodologies, ways of thinking, and communicating, to finished products and films, the makers who created this year's artefacts push the boundaries of ethnographic production a…
The Social Life of Materials
Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural properties have often been overlooked in anthropological studies: finished products have been perceived as ‘social’ yet the materials which comprise them are considered ‘raw’ or natural’. The Social Life of Materials proposes a new perspective in this interdisciplinary field. Diverting attention from the consumption of objects, the b…
Design, Anthropology of
Design is an expanding and emerging topic for anthropological study. Its evasiveness as a cultural phenomenon, which some see as ubiquitous and some see as very limited and specific, necessitates careful handling but is also one of the reasons why it is an interesting cultural phenomenon. The study of design in anthropology originated in the study of graphical representation and graphical ways of thinking and developed into studies of the design …
Stuff
The cultural consideration of the material world increasingly involves not only recognition of material things in their diversity, many different things, but also ideas and concepts which frame the material world as a whole through particular paradigms. Stuff provides us with one of these sweeping paradigmatic interpretations of material culture, both a popular discourse and a set of academic frameworks. Stuff is about proliferating consumer good…
The fitness of persons in the landscape
The concept of isolation has dogged anthropological studies of rural Ireland. This paper re‐conceptualises isolation through ethnographic work undertaken on the minibuses run by Rural Transport projects in five counties of Ireland. Instead of seeing isolation as an embedded characteristic of Irish landscapes, histories or of the ageing body, the paper describes dynamic, shifting expectations of belonging and community. On the Rural Transport buse…
Design Anthropology
This chapter outlines how the subfield now known as design anthropology has developed hand-in-hand with the study of the digital and with digital ways of working—one of many parallel fields concerned with computing. It evaluates some of the contributions to emerge. The chapter is predicated on the idea that every anthropologist needs to know more about this area, not only because we are all potentially implicated in it, but because we need to thi…
Design for and against digital anthropology
This chapter explores the historical entanglements between the development of digital technologies and the interdisciplinary field of design anthropology. Design anthropologists have played an important but often overlooked role in the design of digital artefacts like email and smartphones, which digital anthropologists frequently take as the focus of their research. Design anthropologists have participated in the process of designing these techn…
Cantarella, Luke, Christine Hegel, and George E. Marcus
Anthropos is the international journal of anthropology and linguistics, founded in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt, missonary and member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). Its main purpose is the study of human societies in their cultural dimension. In honor of Wilhelm Schmidt‘s legacy, the cultivation of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, and religious studies remain an essential component oft he Anthropos Institute – the organizational carrier…
Sociology (11 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)