"Designers commonly use ethnographic methods, and social scientists often adopt design practices, economies, cultures, and artifacts as their subjects of study, focusing in particular on how design “translates values into tangible experiences,” as anthropologist Dori Tunstall puts it. The New School offers us a unique environment for studying the myriad ways in which these disciplines and practices can inform one another, and we’ll begin our semester by examining those relationships:…See More

(Originally written in July of 2015) Fountain and clock tower at The University of North Texas in Denton (credit: pinterest)For finishing undergraduate students interested in applied anthropology, and particularly in business, technology, and design like myself, there…See More