T S Criado
Biographic Data
| ID | 65623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T S Criado |
| GIVEN NAMES | T S |
| FAMILY NAME | Criado |
| SIGNATURE | CRIADO T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0858-1757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
For an inviting anthropology
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork. Having each worked for well over a decade at these crossroads, the authors reflect on a search for anthropological relevance undertaken through collaborative materializations o…
Design Before Design
Current ethical and political revivals of design pedagogy foreground the participation of neglected subjects in attempts to democratize design practice. This article explores what participatory design practitioners in architecture might be required to learn when reconfiguring their tasks in the wake of Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches to Participatory Things: treating them as a more-than-human assembly and unfolding process. This r…
Personas mayores en autonomía conectada? Promesas y retos en la tecnologización del cuidado
Este artículo propone una interpretación etnográfica de cómo, en uncontexto de cuidado familiar en transición, servicios de teleasistenciaespañoles buscan proveer a las personas mayores de vínculos socialespara prevenir su aislamiento, articulando una infraestructura de conexióny monitorización para promover lo que denominamos «autonomíaconectada». Para funcionar estos servicios necesitan articular redes de«contactos». Empleamos diferentes acepci…
An Ethnographic Inventory
Pedestrian assemblages
How do blind people walk and cross the streets? This has been the guiding question, only simple at first glance, of our ethnographic study at the crossroads of Sensory Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS), undertaken in the last six years in the city of Barcelona. In it we have followed different activists for the rights of people with "visual diversity" in their everyday urban displacements, and in their politicizations of urban…
Ensamblajes peatonales
Cómo andan y cruzan las calles las personas ciegas? Esa es la pregunta, solo aparentemente sencilla, que hemos abordado a partir de un estudio etnográfico en la encrucijada de la Antropología Sensorial y los Estudios de Ciencia y Tecnología (STS) realizado en los últimos seis años en la ciudad de Barcelona. En él hemos seguido a diferentes activistas por los derechos de la diversidad visual en su cotidianidad, así como en sus trabajos de politiza…
Care in Trouble
Over the last decades, care has proliferated as a notion aimed at capturing a vast array of practices, conditions, and sentiments. In this article, we argue that the analytics of care may benefit from being troubled, as it too often reduces the reproduction of life to matters of palliation and repair, fueling a politics of nationalism and identitarianism. Picking up the threads of insight from STS, "new materialisms," and postcolonial feminist an…
Technologies of friendship
This text is an ethnographic account of a singular, Barcelona-based activist endeavour called En torno a la silla (ETS): a do-it-yourself and open design and making collective engaging in a very peculiar form of accessibility politics beyond a 'disability rights' framework. In it, I entangle intimately with ETS's relational interventions, in the form of making and documentation processes. What animates me is a political engagement with the practi…
DIY Anthropology
This is an account of the transformations in our anthropological practice derived from working in the many interstitial spaces that opened up in the wake of the recent Spanish economic crisis. Ambulating in void spaces of Madrid and Barcelona, our anthropological practice was there re-built in ways that blurred our disciplinary boundaries. What there emerged was anthropology not as a disciplinary field, but as a field of experimental collaboratio…
Speed
Children go fast because they know how to glide in between
Urban accessibility issues
After many struggles from disability rights and independent-living advocates, urban accessibility has gradually become a concern for many urban planners across post-industrial countries. In this paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork studies in Barcelona working with urban accessibility professionals and activists, we argue for the importance of the ‘documentation interfaces’ created in their struggles: that is, the relational processes to collab…
Experimentación etnográfica
Cómo sería un ejercicio de experimentación etnográfica en el trabajo de campo? Pareciera que las etnografías de las últimas décadas dedicadas al estudio de los nuevos medios, la ciencia y las organizaciones globales nos ofrecieran la posibilidad, o plantearan la necesidad, de reconsiderar la forma y norma del trabajo de campo etnográfico. Este artículo discute a partir de nuestra experiencia etnográfica lo que designamos como formas de trabajo de…
Antropocefa
A través de la reflexión irónica propuesta en una performance pública, el artículo despliega un argumento sobre lo que denominamos "colaboraciones experimentales": una exploración que busca expandir el impulso experimental abierto en la antropología en los 1990s en el espacio de escritura hacia un nuevo locus, el trabajo de campo. Creemos que ese desplazamiento resuena con transformaciones introducidas en el mundo del arte por las prácticas parti…
Experimental collaborations
This position article argues in favour of a research programme for the exploration of experimental collaborations, a methodological approach whose epistemic engagement with the empirical work is experimental and whose relational mode is collaborative. Digital technologies have effected a process of redistribution of social science research by which non-experts and lay people are increasingly using and developing tools for the production of sociol…
Installing Telecare, Installing Users
This article reports on ethnographic research into the practical and ethical consequences of the implementation and use of telecare devices for older people living at home in Spain and the United Kingdom. Telecare services are said to allow the maintenance of their users' autonomy through connectedness, relieving the isolation from which many older people suffer amid rising demands for care. However, engaging with Science and Technology Studies (…
Imitation, opposition and innovation of social forms
In this text I present a selection of fragments of the book ‘The social laws' by Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), published originally in 1898 and translated into Spanish at the beginning of the 20th century. After a long time condemned to oblivion Gabriel Tarde has been reinvigorated in recent decades for the pantheon of social sciences, even reaching the point of becoming a very relevant author for Actor-Network Theory (no less than Bruno Latour has …
Diasporas and transitions in Actor-Network Theory
This paper is an introduction to the monograph titled Diasporas and Transitions in the Actor-Network Theory. Drawing a parallel with ethnomethodology, its pages present the main features of this theory, a way to figure out its origins and a description of its present. The text ends with a brief look at the state of art of actor-network theory in Spain and an appraisal of a meeting titled Present and Future of Actor-Network Theory, which is the or…
Imitación, oposición e innovación de las formas sociales
En este texto presento una selección de fragmentos del libro “Las leyes sociales” de Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), publicado originalmente en 1898, y traducido en castellano a principios del siglo XX. Después de un largo olvido Tarde ha sido revigorizado para el panteón de las ciencias sociales, llegando a ser convertido en un autor muy relevante para la teoría del actor-red (incluso siendo mencionado por Bruno Latour como su antepasado). Pero creo …
Diásporas y transiciones en la Teoría del Actor-Red
Este texto es una presentación del monográfico Diásporas y transiciones en la teoría del actor-red. Sus páginas presentan las principales características de esta teoría, una manera de entender sus orígenes y una descripción de su presente estableciendo un paralelismo con la etnometodología. El texto finaliza con una valoración del estado de la teoría del actor-red en España y un comentario sobre un congreso que llevó el título de Presente y futur…
Dwelling the Telecare Home
Home has become a newly fostered place for care giving in what might be called an aging in place paradigm. As a result, thinking about how the home's spatialities are configured and how they might transform caring has become an important issue for the social sciences. This article is a contribution to this line of thought and looks at being-at-home from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By focusing on the telecare cases of an ongoing ethnograp…
The Perception of the Environment
a presentarse como candidato a la elección de su Junta Directiva
Sinergia, red y asociacionismo en la antropología. La experiencia de Aibr
En el congreso de la SEAA celebrado en Granada en el ao 2002, la asociacin AIBR present una aportacin relativa a la comunicacin profesional en antropologa a travs del aprovechamiento de nuevas tecnologas de la informacin Desde entonces y hasta la fecha, esta entidad ha procurado servir como espacio de intercambio y comunicacin profesional en idioma espaol. Este texto reflexiona sobre la situacin asociativa de la disciplina en pases como Espaa, y …
Techniques, Technology and Civilization, de Marcel Mauss
The Perception of the Environment
Resulta complicado resumir y evaluar con rigor esta "monstruosa" obra de Tim Ingold: veintitres capitulos, todos ellos ampliamente relacionados, divididos en tres secciones complementarias (Livelihood: medio o modo de vida; Dwelling: habitar, habitaculo; Skill: habilidad, capacidad). Me atreveria a decir que el planteamiento teorico de Ingold, que viene recopilado en gran medida en la presente obra, es de una de las propuestas mas ambiciosas, int…
Care in Trouble
Over the last decades, care has proliferated as a notion aimed at capturing a vast array of practices, conditions, and sentiments. In this article, we argue that the analytics of care may benefit from being troubled, as it too often reduces the reproduction of life to matters of palliation and repair, fueling a politics of nationalism and identitarianism. Picking up the threads of insight from STS, "new materialisms," and postcolonial feminist an…
Speed
Children go fast because they know how to glide in between
Experimental collaborations
This position article argues in favour of a research programme for the exploration of experimental collaborations, a methodological approach whose epistemic engagement with the empirical work is experimental and whose relational mode is collaborative. Digital technologies have effected a process of redistribution of social science research by which non-experts and lay people are increasingly using and developing tools for the production of sociol…
Experimentación etnográfica
Cómo sería un ejercicio de experimentación etnográfica en el trabajo de campo? Pareciera que las etnografías de las últimas décadas dedicadas al estudio de los nuevos medios, la ciencia y las organizaciones globales nos ofrecieran la posibilidad, o plantearan la necesidad, de reconsiderar la forma y norma del trabajo de campo etnográfico. Este artículo discute a partir de nuestra experiencia etnográfica lo que designamos como formas de trabajo de…
Installing Telecare, Installing Users
This article reports on ethnographic research into the practical and ethical consequences of the implementation and use of telecare devices for older people living at home in Spain and the United Kingdom. Telecare services are said to allow the maintenance of their users' autonomy through connectedness, relieving the isolation from which many older people suffer amid rising demands for care. However, engaging with Science and Technology Studies (…
Dwelling the Telecare Home
Home has become a newly fostered place for care giving in what might be called an aging in place paradigm. As a result, thinking about how the home's spatialities are configured and how they might transform caring has become an important issue for the social sciences. This article is a contribution to this line of thought and looks at being-at-home from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By focusing on the telecare cases of an ongoing ethnograp…
Urban accessibility issues
After many struggles from disability rights and independent-living advocates, urban accessibility has gradually become a concern for many urban planners across post-industrial countries. In this paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork studies in Barcelona working with urban accessibility professionals and activists, we argue for the importance of the ‘documentation interfaces’ created in their struggles: that is, the relational processes to collab…
DIY Anthropology
This is an account of the transformations in our anthropological practice derived from working in the many interstitial spaces that opened up in the wake of the recent Spanish economic crisis. Ambulating in void spaces of Madrid and Barcelona, our anthropological practice was there re-built in ways that blurred our disciplinary boundaries. What there emerged was anthropology not as a disciplinary field, but as a field of experimental collaboratio…
Technologies of friendship
This text is an ethnographic account of a singular, Barcelona-based activist endeavour called En torno a la silla (ETS): a do-it-yourself and open design and making collective engaging in a very peculiar form of accessibility politics beyond a 'disability rights' framework. In it, I entangle intimately with ETS's relational interventions, in the form of making and documentation processes. What animates me is a political engagement with the practi…
Antropocefa
A través de la reflexión irónica propuesta en una performance pública, el artículo despliega un argumento sobre lo que denominamos "colaboraciones experimentales": una exploración que busca expandir el impulso experimental abierto en la antropología en los 1990s en el espacio de escritura hacia un nuevo locus, el trabajo de campo. Creemos que ese desplazamiento resuena con transformaciones introducidas en el mundo del arte por las prácticas parti…
The Perception of the Environment
a presentarse como candidato a la elección de su Junta Directiva
Sinergia, red y asociacionismo en la antropología. La experiencia de Aibr
En el congreso de la SEAA celebrado en Granada en el ao 2002, la asociacin AIBR present una aportacin relativa a la comunicacin profesional en antropologa a travs del aprovechamiento de nuevas tecnologas de la informacin Desde entonces y hasta la fecha, esta entidad ha procurado servir como espacio de intercambio y comunicacin profesional en idioma espaol. Este texto reflexiona sobre la situacin asociativa de la disciplina en pases como Espaa, y …
Techniques, Technology and Civilization, de Marcel Mauss
Dwelling the Telecare Home
Home has become a newly fostered place for care giving in what might be called an aging in place paradigm. As a result, thinking about how the home's spatialities are configured and how they might transform caring has become an important issue for the social sciences. This article is a contribution to this line of thought and looks at being-at-home from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By focusing on the telecare cases of an ongoing ethnograp…
The Perception of the Environment
a presentarse como candidato a la elección de su Junta Directiva
Imitation, opposition and innovation of social forms
In this text I present a selection of fragments of the book ‘The social laws' by Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), published originally in 1898 and translated into Spanish at the beginning of the 20th century. After a long time condemned to oblivion Gabriel Tarde has been reinvigorated in recent decades for the pantheon of social sciences, even reaching the point of becoming a very relevant author for Actor-Network Theory (no less than Bruno Latour has …
Diasporas and transitions in Actor-Network Theory
This paper is an introduction to the monograph titled Diasporas and Transitions in the Actor-Network Theory. Drawing a parallel with ethnomethodology, its pages present the main features of this theory, a way to figure out its origins and a description of its present. The text ends with a brief look at the state of art of actor-network theory in Spain and an appraisal of a meeting titled Present and Future of Actor-Network Theory, which is the or…
Imitación, oposición e innovación de las formas sociales
En este texto presento una selección de fragmentos del libro “Las leyes sociales” de Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), publicado originalmente en 1898, y traducido en castellano a principios del siglo XX. Después de un largo olvido Tarde ha sido revigorizado para el panteón de las ciencias sociales, llegando a ser convertido en un autor muy relevante para la teoría del actor-red (incluso siendo mencionado por Bruno Latour como su antepasado). Pero creo …
Diásporas y transiciones en la Teoría del Actor-Red
Este texto es una presentación del monográfico Diásporas y transiciones en la teoría del actor-red. Sus páginas presentan las principales características de esta teoría, una manera de entender sus orígenes y una descripción de su presente estableciendo un paralelismo con la etnometodología. El texto finaliza con una valoración del estado de la teoría del actor-red en España y un comentario sobre un congreso que llevó el título de Presente y futur…
Installing Telecare, Installing Users
This article reports on ethnographic research into the practical and ethical consequences of the implementation and use of telecare devices for older people living at home in Spain and the United Kingdom. Telecare services are said to allow the maintenance of their users' autonomy through connectedness, relieving the isolation from which many older people suffer amid rising demands for care. However, engaging with Science and Technology Studies (…
Experimental collaborations
This position article argues in favour of a research programme for the exploration of experimental collaborations, a methodological approach whose epistemic engagement with the empirical work is experimental and whose relational mode is collaborative. Digital technologies have effected a process of redistribution of social science research by which non-experts and lay people are increasingly using and developing tools for the production of sociol…
Urban accessibility issues
After many struggles from disability rights and independent-living advocates, urban accessibility has gradually become a concern for many urban planners across post-industrial countries. In this paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork studies in Barcelona working with urban accessibility professionals and activists, we argue for the importance of the ‘documentation interfaces’ created in their struggles: that is, the relational processes to collab…
Experimentación etnográfica
Cómo sería un ejercicio de experimentación etnográfica en el trabajo de campo? Pareciera que las etnografías de las últimas décadas dedicadas al estudio de los nuevos medios, la ciencia y las organizaciones globales nos ofrecieran la posibilidad, o plantearan la necesidad, de reconsiderar la forma y norma del trabajo de campo etnográfico. Este artículo discute a partir de nuestra experiencia etnográfica lo que designamos como formas de trabajo de…
Antropocefa
A través de la reflexión irónica propuesta en una performance pública, el artículo despliega un argumento sobre lo que denominamos "colaboraciones experimentales": una exploración que busca expandir el impulso experimental abierto en la antropología en los 1990s en el espacio de escritura hacia un nuevo locus, el trabajo de campo. Creemos que ese desplazamiento resuena con transformaciones introducidas en el mundo del arte por las prácticas parti…
Speed
Children go fast because they know how to glide in between
Technologies of friendship
This text is an ethnographic account of a singular, Barcelona-based activist endeavour called En torno a la silla (ETS): a do-it-yourself and open design and making collective engaging in a very peculiar form of accessibility politics beyond a 'disability rights' framework. In it, I entangle intimately with ETS's relational interventions, in the form of making and documentation processes. What animates me is a political engagement with the practi…
DIY Anthropology
This is an account of the transformations in our anthropological practice derived from working in the many interstitial spaces that opened up in the wake of the recent Spanish economic crisis. Ambulating in void spaces of Madrid and Barcelona, our anthropological practice was there re-built in ways that blurred our disciplinary boundaries. What there emerged was anthropology not as a disciplinary field, but as a field of experimental collaboratio…
Care in Trouble
Over the last decades, care has proliferated as a notion aimed at capturing a vast array of practices, conditions, and sentiments. In this article, we argue that the analytics of care may benefit from being troubled, as it too often reduces the reproduction of life to matters of palliation and repair, fueling a politics of nationalism and identitarianism. Picking up the threads of insight from STS, "new materialisms," and postcolonial feminist an…
Pedestrian assemblages
How do blind people walk and cross the streets? This has been the guiding question, only simple at first glance, of our ethnographic study at the crossroads of Sensory Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS), undertaken in the last six years in the city of Barcelona. In it we have followed different activists for the rights of people with "visual diversity" in their everyday urban displacements, and in their politicizations of urban…
Ensamblajes peatonales
Cómo andan y cruzan las calles las personas ciegas? Esa es la pregunta, solo aparentemente sencilla, que hemos abordado a partir de un estudio etnográfico en la encrucijada de la Antropología Sensorial y los Estudios de Ciencia y Tecnología (STS) realizado en los últimos seis años en la ciudad de Barcelona. En él hemos seguido a diferentes activistas por los derechos de la diversidad visual en su cotidianidad, así como en sus trabajos de politiza…
An Ethnographic Inventory
Design Before Design
Current ethical and political revivals of design pedagogy foreground the participation of neglected subjects in attempts to democratize design practice. This article explores what participatory design practitioners in architecture might be required to learn when reconfiguring their tasks in the wake of Science and Technology Studies (STS) approaches to Participatory Things: treating them as a more-than-human assembly and unfolding process. This r…
The Perception of the Environment
Resulta complicado resumir y evaluar con rigor esta "monstruosa" obra de Tim Ingold: veintitres capitulos, todos ellos ampliamente relacionados, divididos en tres secciones complementarias (Livelihood: medio o modo de vida; Dwelling: habitar, habitaculo; Skill: habilidad, capacidad). Me atreveria a decir que el planteamiento teorico de Ingold, que viene recopilado en gran medida en la presente obra, es de una de las propuestas mas ambiciosas, int…
Personas mayores en autonomía conectada? Promesas y retos en la tecnologización del cuidado
Este artículo propone una interpretación etnográfica de cómo, en uncontexto de cuidado familiar en transición, servicios de teleasistenciaespañoles buscan proveer a las personas mayores de vínculos socialespara prevenir su aislamiento, articulando una infraestructura de conexióny monitorización para promover lo que denominamos «autonomíaconectada». Para funcionar estos servicios necesitan articular redes de«contactos». Empleamos diferentes acepci…
For an inviting anthropology
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork. Having each worked for well over a decade at these crossroads, the authors reflect on a search for anthropological relevance undertaken through collaborative materializations o…
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