Documentation, analysis and systematisation of parameters for reviewing and updating participation and engagement relationships between those involved in design teaching and research activities
this project seeks to redefine, in anthropological terms, what constitutes design education and research. By specifying the originality that distinguishes them, namely the pedagogical and investigative approaches of (1) learning by doing and (2) collective imagination exercises of transformative futures, the research is complementarily orientated towards a reconsideration of design teaching and research through an anthropological analysis. By combining design and anthropology, it will inevitably also contribute to broadening the scope of studies in the emerging field called design anthropology, which brings together researchers from both areas in search of establishing symmetrical relationships between modes of knowledge production specific to the two areas of study in order to produce innovations for practice and research in the social sciences, such as anthropology, and in the applied social sciences, such as design.
