An Architecture by means of AnthropologyBeyond learning the tools of social science

  1. Ester Gisbert Alemany 1
  1. 1 Universitat d'Alacant
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    Universitat d'Alacant

    Alicante, España

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Journal:
[i2] : Investigación e Innovación en Arquitectura y Territorio

ISSN: 2341-0515

Year of publication: 2016

Volume: 4

Issue: 1

Type: Article

DOI: 10.14198/I2.2016.4.05 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openRUA editor

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Abstract

Architects and urban planners have traditionally considered social sciences to learn their tools, particularly the ones that allow them to analyse and describe the environments and the people for whom they work. This has led architects to develop better tools of observation and description of the social realm and not only the material one. Nevertheless, most of the times this interdisciplinary approach has identified social sciences, and specially anthropology, with ethnography. This paper departs from the critique of this identification made by anthropologist Tim Ingold and focuses in what he proposes is the core method of anthropology, participant observation. Then it reviews several recent proposals of social scientists who are searching for a non-representational more future oriented discipline. Which is an aim more related to that of architects. This paper tries to imagine how this transdisciplinary practice could look like.

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