Melisa Duque
Biographic Data
| ID | 3650437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melisa Duque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Duque |
| SIGNATURE | DUQUE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4231-6081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reuse organisations as infrastructure for inclusive circular cities: Conceptualising the contributions and agency of community and charitable reuse organisations
Community and charitable reuse organisations provide significant social infrastructure that facilitates the redistribution of discarded items to new owners, but are often overlooked in circular cities initiatives. Drawing on a survey of 34 reuse organisations from across Australia and recorded interviews and site visits to 10 of these between 2021 and 2023, we characterise the processes, practices and types of organisations across the sector. We …
Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care
Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as a continual process of creating, maintaining, and restoring meanings and experiences of home. Melisa Duque draws from her design ethnographic practice with people using smart home lighting, gardening, jigsaw puzzles, and op-shopping to present everyday examples in dialogue with theoretical discussions, revealing…
Cross-sectoral Futures: Futures Anthropology and Epistemic Companions
In this article we discuss how engaged futures anthropology might be mobilised in an anticipatory stance, to understand and be open to working with possible epistemic companions , with whom we may share a futures space, coincide, cross pathways and potentially collaborate. We discuss research undertaken with participants holding senior leadership positions across diverse sectors in order to consider how they know and understand possible futures a…
Design Ethnography: Research, Responsibilities, and Futures
Thrift Stores
Thrift stores, also known as charity or opportunity (op) shops, are important secondhand retail and social welfare hubs. Often run by not‐for‐profit organizations, they provide opportunities for people to volunteer, work, and shop for preloved goods locally and through growing online platforms. In this entry, we recognize the potential of thrift stores to support community and environmental programs – and point out some criticisms and challenges …
Automation, wellbeing and Digital Voice Assistants: Older people and Google devices
Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs) like Google Home provide automated news, media and other content directly into the home. In this article, we outline how Google Home’s content delivery can support the wellbeing and independence of older people. We argue that automated media provided by DVAs enrols older people in a dialectic relationship with the automated content and feminised conversation they deliver, uniquely performed within people’s own ever…
Atmospheres of care in a psychiatric inpatient unit
In this article we directly address the question of atmosphere in a psychiatric inpatient unit, focussing on the particular role that forms of care delivered ‘on the move’ play in shaping that atmosphere. Our approach, based in sensory ethnography, foregrounds the perspective of the staff who work in this environment, showing how they enact care via mobile, sensory and spatial expertize. In particular, we focus on the role of anticipation and mov…
Homeliness in Health Care: The Role of Everyday Designing
This article examines how a sense of home can be created in complex clinical healthcare contexts for vulnerable patients. While existing research in this field focuses mainly on patient experience, we take a design anthropological approach to advance the discussion by examining how healthcare staff participate as “everyday designers,” who improvise to create circumstances for homeliness. We draw on ethnographic research undertaken in the Older Pe…
Recycling traffic noise: Transforming Sonic Automobilities for Revalue and Well Being
In this article, we advance a design anthropological approach to the ‘problem’ of urban traffic noise, through noise transformation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary collaboration between design anthropology and sound art and design, we discuss how noise transformation opens up new possibilities for the generation of wellbeing. To undertake this we interrogate the human-technology-environment configurations, improvisatory character, materiality an…
Everyday mundane repair: Banknotes and the Material Entanglements of Improvisation and Innovation
This article seeks to contribute to the conceptualization of everyday repair with a focus on banknotes, a ubiquitous and mundane technology in constant need of maintenance and repair. Through a design anthropology approach, we examine how practices of repairing banknotes are entangled with discourses of innovation that manifest in everyday life. This is complemented with a short ethnographic account of how damage, care and repair of banknotes in …
Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world
In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so, we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in processes of decay, making, repair, re-making and growth, which are inextricable from the ongoing forms of creativity that stem from everyday contingencies and improvisatory human activity. We build and demonstrate our argument through three examples drawn from munda…
Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world
In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so, we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in processes of decay, making, repair, re-making and growth, which are inextricable from the ongoing forms of creativity that stem from everyday contingencies and improvisatory human activity. We build and demonstrate our argument through three examples drawn from munda…
Atmospheres of care in a psychiatric inpatient unit
In this article we directly address the question of atmosphere in a psychiatric inpatient unit, focussing on the particular role that forms of care delivered ‘on the move’ play in shaping that atmosphere. Our approach, based in sensory ethnography, foregrounds the perspective of the staff who work in this environment, showing how they enact care via mobile, sensory and spatial expertize. In particular, we focus on the role of anticipation and mov…
Homeliness in Health Care: The Role of Everyday Designing
This article examines how a sense of home can be created in complex clinical healthcare contexts for vulnerable patients. While existing research in this field focuses mainly on patient experience, we take a design anthropological approach to advance the discussion by examining how healthcare staff participate as “everyday designers,” who improvise to create circumstances for homeliness. We draw on ethnographic research undertaken in the Older Pe…
Recycling traffic noise: Transforming Sonic Automobilities for Revalue and Well Being
In this article, we advance a design anthropological approach to the ‘problem’ of urban traffic noise, through noise transformation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary collaboration between design anthropology and sound art and design, we discuss how noise transformation opens up new possibilities for the generation of wellbeing. To undertake this we interrogate the human-technology-environment configurations, improvisatory character, materiality an…
Everyday mundane repair: Banknotes and the Material Entanglements of Improvisation and Innovation
This article seeks to contribute to the conceptualization of everyday repair with a focus on banknotes, a ubiquitous and mundane technology in constant need of maintenance and repair. Through a design anthropology approach, we examine how practices of repairing banknotes are entangled with discourses of innovation that manifest in everyday life. This is complemented with a short ethnographic account of how damage, care and repair of banknotes in …
Broken data: Conceptualising data in an emerging world
In this article, we introduce and demonstrate the concept-metaphor of broken data. In doing so, we advance critical discussions of digital data by accounting for how data might be in processes of decay, making, repair, re-making and growth, which are inextricable from the ongoing forms of creativity that stem from everyday contingencies and improvisatory human activity. We build and demonstrate our argument through three examples drawn from munda…
Homeliness in Health Care: The Role of Everyday Designing
This article examines how a sense of home can be created in complex clinical healthcare contexts for vulnerable patients. While existing research in this field focuses mainly on patient experience, we take a design anthropological approach to advance the discussion by examining how healthcare staff participate as “everyday designers,” who improvise to create circumstances for homeliness. We draw on ethnographic research undertaken in the Older Pe…
Recycling traffic noise: Transforming Sonic Automobilities for Revalue and Well Being
In this article, we advance a design anthropological approach to the ‘problem’ of urban traffic noise, through noise transformation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary collaboration between design anthropology and sound art and design, we discuss how noise transformation opens up new possibilities for the generation of wellbeing. To undertake this we interrogate the human-technology-environment configurations, improvisatory character, materiality an…
Everyday mundane repair: Banknotes and the Material Entanglements of Improvisation and Innovation
This article seeks to contribute to the conceptualization of everyday repair with a focus on banknotes, a ubiquitous and mundane technology in constant need of maintenance and repair. Through a design anthropology approach, we examine how practices of repairing banknotes are entangled with discourses of innovation that manifest in everyday life. This is complemented with a short ethnographic account of how damage, care and repair of banknotes in …
Atmospheres of care in a psychiatric inpatient unit
In this article we directly address the question of atmosphere in a psychiatric inpatient unit, focussing on the particular role that forms of care delivered ‘on the move’ play in shaping that atmosphere. Our approach, based in sensory ethnography, foregrounds the perspective of the staff who work in this environment, showing how they enact care via mobile, sensory and spatial expertize. In particular, we focus on the role of anticipation and mov…
Thrift Stores
Thrift stores, also known as charity or opportunity (op) shops, are important secondhand retail and social welfare hubs. Often run by not‐for‐profit organizations, they provide opportunities for people to volunteer, work, and shop for preloved goods locally and through growing online platforms. In this entry, we recognize the potential of thrift stores to support community and environmental programs – and point out some criticisms and challenges …
Automation, wellbeing and Digital Voice Assistants: Older people and Google devices
Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs) like Google Home provide automated news, media and other content directly into the home. In this article, we outline how Google Home’s content delivery can support the wellbeing and independence of older people. We argue that automated media provided by DVAs enrols older people in a dialectic relationship with the automated content and feminised conversation they deliver, uniquely performed within people’s own ever…
Design Ethnography: Research, Responsibilities, and Futures
Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care
Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as a continual process of creating, maintaining, and restoring meanings and experiences of home. Melisa Duque draws from her design ethnographic practice with people using smart home lighting, gardening, jigsaw puzzles, and op-shopping to present everyday examples in dialogue with theoretical discussions, revealing…
Cross-sectoral Futures: Futures Anthropology and Epistemic Companions
In this article we discuss how engaged futures anthropology might be mobilised in an anticipatory stance, to understand and be open to working with possible epistemic companions , with whom we may share a futures space, coincide, cross pathways and potentially collaborate. We discuss research undertaken with participants holding senior leadership positions across diverse sectors in order to consider how they know and understand possible futures a…
Reuse organisations as infrastructure for inclusive circular cities: Conceptualising the contributions and agency of community and charitable reuse organisations
Community and charitable reuse organisations provide significant social infrastructure that facilitates the redistribution of discarded items to new owners, but are often overlooked in circular cities initiatives. Drawing on a survey of 34 reuse organisations from across Australia and recorded interviews and site visits to 10 of these between 2021 and 2023, we characterise the processes, practices and types of organisations across the sector. We …
Sociology (7 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Everyday life (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)