Autographic Turn In Design
Schouwenberg, Louise, and Michael Kaethler, eds. The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design. Valiz, 2021. https://valiz.nl/en/publications/the-auto-ethnographic-turn-in-design.
“Additionally, the act of self-interrogationneed not only be a theoretical or literary act but one that is tangible, hands-on, and embedded in the deeply tacit relationship between the self and materiality” p16
“design auto-ethnography not only looks at our experience with the material world but also uses that same material world for expression” p17
These quotes are important as, from the beginning of this research and my curiosity about autoethnography I could only find reference to written (and more narrative) style texts, which doesn’t really speak to my natural way of making work. Knowing that there is a material engagement with this is much easier for me to understand in relation to my practice.
challenges-tendencies-toward-solutionism
“on the one hand, auto-ethnographic design borrows from approaches such as relational, speculative, critical, and social design; on the other hand, it breaks from these by resisting the pragmatic knee-jerk response to focus the act of designing on externalities-- be it a design brief, a market niche, or a social or political issue” (p19)
this is challenging to some common understandings of design practices and how they are evaluated/assessed. In the case of autoethnographic design the proces sbegins not from the position of trying to solve a problem but instead exploring a particular tension, “one that may remain deeply personal or be materialized in abstract or symbolic material formulations”(p19)
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