Week 2: January 17, 2005

Topic: No Class, Martin Luther King Holiday

Readings (from previous class):

Barnard, Alan.   2000. History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge University Press: New York, New York.
Chapter 1: pp. 1-14

Meurer, Bernd.   2002. Social Sciences and Design Innovation. in Design and the Social Sciences. Jorge Frascara, Editor. Taylor and Francis: New York NY.
Chapter 5: pp. 40-55

Plattner, Stuart.   2003. "Anthropology of Art." In A Handbook of Cultural Economics. Edward Elgar, editor. Northampton, MA.   Plattner Anth of Art (125k)

Rothstein, Paul.   1999. "The ReEmergence of Ethnography in Industrial Design Today." In IDSA: What's New: 1999 IDSA Design Education Conference Proceedings: Papers.  Rothstein ReEmergence (68k)

Assignments Due:

Initial Concept Statement (2 pages). The concept statement needs to include the following:

1) a title,
2) description,
3) a list of questions that are the basis of your concept,
4) a list of assumptions that underlie your concept,
5) outlining of methods you would use to verify your concept, and
6) outlining of evidence that your concept is valid.