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Accepted Paper:
Architecture and anthropology: thresholds and crossings between disciplines
Ray Lucas
(Manchester Metropolitan University)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper, I intend to discuss the relationship between architecture and anthropology as disciplines. There is, in this question, a point of threshold: a transition between one condition and another might be observed.
Paper long abstract:
In this paper, I intend to discuss the relationship between architecture and anthropology as disciplines. There is, in this question, a point of threshold: a transition between one condition and another might be observed.
The key difference between the disciplines remains the operational nature of design disciplines as opposed to the descriptive nature of anthropology. In order to understand the relationship between these obviously related disciplines, this fundamental difference must be clearly understood and expressed. Anthropologists are often uneasy with the relative ease with which architects propose change to a situation, imposing their will onto a site. Architects, on the other hand, are commonly confounded at the complication found in the simplest act by the anthropologist: the problematisation of everyday life sometimes jarring with their entrenched desire to act first and theorise later.
This paper charts the development of a new studio and lecture course for architects in Manchester.
Design anthropology: intertwining different timelines, scales and movements
Session 1