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Teach Your Children Well: (How and) Why Design Anthropology Speaks to Our Students
Journal of Business Anthropology, 2018 This paper explores design anthropology as a topic of study among university students. After establishing a working definition of design anthropology, I will use a case study from class to illustrate several aspects of the discipline that appeal to ...
Lisa M DiCarlo
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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Future Orientation in Design, Participation and Learning [PDF]
Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 2015 How do we create futures in collaboration? Is future orientation in design anthropology a tool solid enough for scaffolding transformations? This paper explores the content of future orientation in design anthropology, participatory design and ...
Dagny Stuedahl
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Dressed to Marry: Islam, Fashion, and the Making of Muslim Brides in Brazil
Religions, 2019 This article explores the dress practices of Muslim women in Brazil, focusing on the ways through which they choose, prepare, use, and talk about their wedding garments.
Gisele Fonseca Chagas +1 more
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The telematic dress: Evolving garments and distributed proprioception in streaming media and fashion performance [PDF]
, 2005 Centered around several short films from streaming performances created in 2005, this paper explores new ideas for movement technologies and garment design in an arts and digital research context. The "telematic dress" project, developed at the DAP Lab
Birringer, J, Danjoux, M
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Female desert locusts dig underground to lay their eggs. They displace soil, rather than removing it, to create a tunnel. We analyze burrowing dynamics and 3D kinematics and design a locust‐inspired hybrid soft–stiff robot that reproduces this mechanism. The results show the natural strategy minimizes energy, whereas alternative patterns raise costs up
Shai Sonnenreich +2 more
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Understanding How Undergraduate Students Experience and Manage Stress: Implications for Teaching and Learning Anthropology [PDF]
, 2019 Research has shown that negative effects of stress on undergraduate students can have a significant impact on their college experience. Most of what we know about this topic is quantitative, based on surveys that provide self-reported information for ...
Morey, Taylor, Taylor, Nicole
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study analyzes a participatory project to develop peer support services for people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) in China. Drawing on interviews with psychiatrists, social workers, service users, and a family caregiver, it examines the conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes of participation in a paternalistic context ...
Zhiying Ma +6 more
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The Designer as Ethnographer: Practical Projects from Industry [PDF]
, 2010 Bichard and Gheerawo (RCA) were invited to contribute this chapter by the book’s editor, Professor Alison Clarke (University of Applied Arts, Vienna), who brought together ‘key thinkers and practitioners involved in making and theorizing our contemporary
Bichard, Jo-Anne, GHEERAWO, Rama
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Image Sources: A guide to finding photographs, pictures and graphics [PDF]
, 2021 A Library Research Guide to finding and using print, electronic and web images for use in ...
Chris Fowler
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