Part One: Designs for Teaching Other Worlds (Higher Ed TIG)

Designs for Teaching Other Worlds (Higher Ed TIG) 

 

CHAIRS: LYON-CALLO, Vincent (W Michigan U) and SHEAR, Boone (UMass) 

SHEAR, Boone (UMass) Indeterminacy and Networked Mess as a Design for Teaching Other Worlds 

KAWA, Nick, LIPSCHITZ, Forbes, and RANCE, Logan (Ohio State U) Collaborative Design for Teaching about the Use of Human “Waste” as an Agricultural Resource in the American Midwest Saturday, march 2372 

LYON-CALLO, Vincent (W Michigan U) Despair, Desires, Distraught Students, and Design for Imagining/Enacting a Possible World 

HEALY, Stephen (W Sydney U) Diverse Economies, Design-Futures and Unmaking Unsustainability 

 

DISCUSSANT: HEALY, Stephen (W Sydney U)

 

ABSTRACT: LYON-CALLO, Vincent (W Michigan U) and SHEAR, Boone (UMass), Designs for Teaching Other Worlds. Design has long occupied anthropological practice. From research to writing and teaching to intervention, design is the bridge between matter and form, vision and reality. The term calls to mind the creative capacity of human beings to build and negotiate the diverse worlds. This panel belongs to the special track, “Designs for Turbulent Times,” that seeks to rethink the application of anthropology as less concerned with producing forms and things for the world as it is, and more with engaging worlds and world-making practices that may come to be. Topics include: development, the commons, pedagogy, activism, and “applied” anthropology. 

 

Session took place in Portland, OR at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2019.