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Author Pink, Sarah, author.

Title Making homes : ethnography and design / Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Roxana Moroşanu, Val Mitchell and Tracy Bhamra
Published London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Home
Home (Bloomsbury)
Contents Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of figures; List of authors; Acknowledgements; Series preface: Why home?; Chapter 1 Design, ethnography and homes; Social science and design; What is home?; A design ethnography approach to the home; The book; Chapter 2 Temporalities; Interrogating the temporalities of ethnography; Temporalities of homes; Design ethnography temporalities; Summing up; Chapter 3 Environments; Introduction; The materiality of home; The atmospheres of home; The digital-material-atmospheric home; Implications: Designing for the digital-material-atmospheric home
Chapter 4 Activity and movementMovement as an approach; The study of human activity in the home; Moving through the home in practice; Cooking as movement; Digital technologies and media on the move; Non-human movement through the home; Summing up; Cahpter 5 Methods for researching homes; Researching everyday life; Researching in homes; Using short-term and intensive ethnographic and design research methods; Using interview methods in homes; Touring the home with participants; Video re-enactments; In-practice studies of everyday human activity
Participatory floor plan activity and timeline methodsArts-based methods: The Tactile Time collage; Self-reporting methods; Self-interviewing methods: The Five Cups of Tea video method; Video diaries: The Evening Times video recording method; Summing up; Chapter 6 Homes in translation; Making impact through ethnography and design in homes; Design, ethnography and reconceptualizing home; Researching future homes; Future homes research; References; Index
Summary Making Homes presents a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for both ethnographers and designers, the authors examine 'hot' topics -- ranging from movements and mobilities to im/material environments, to digital culture -- and confront the challenges of a research and design environment which seeks to bring about the changes required for a sustainable, resilient, 'safe', and comfortable future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Architecture, Domestic -- Philosophy
Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Technical design.
Houses, apartments, flats, etc.
Anthropology.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential.
HOUSE & HOME -- Design & Construction.
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Domestic -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Architectural drawings
Form Electronic book
Author Mackley, Kerstin Leder, author
Moroşanu, Roxana, author.
Mitchell, Val, author.
Bhamra, Tracy, author.
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