Culture sensitive design : a guide to culture in practice /

Societies worldwide are increasingly interconnected through trade, migration, education and digitization. This has resulted in a profound new complexity of cultural groups. Consequently, designers are confronted with the challenge of gaining a clear understanding of this cultural diversity. Culture...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Boeijen, Annemiek van (Author), Zijlstra, Yvo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : BIS Publishers, [2020].
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Your culture: A personal reflection. Everyone on the same page?
  • why culture sensitivity in design?
  • How can we frame culture?
  • What do we mean by culture sensitivity?
  • Five intentions for culture-sensitive design ; 'My culture'
  • Your design culture
  • How culture sensitive are you?
  • Culture defined: A lens for viewing. Starting points
  • How can we view culture?
  • Values and practices
  • Cultural dimensions
  • In what ways can we identify cultures?
  • Global and local cultures
  • National cultures: synthetic or true
  • Subcultures: dying or booming
  • HIgh, low, pop, and mass cultures: mind the stigma
  • Folk cultures: the value of traditions
  • Between cultural groups
  • Dominant cultures versus minority cultures
  • Stereotypes and archetypes
  • Value conflicts
  • Culture shock and acculturation
  • Designing with culture: Models and methods. Let's get started
  • Why models and methods?
  • Emic and etic: your perspective
  • Outsider or insider: Influence of your role
  • Storytelling: collecting 'thick data'
  • Attune your methods
  • Language and communication
  • Models and methods. Circuit of culture model
  • From persona to cultura
  • Socio-cultural dimensions for design
  • Role mapping
  • Culture mapping with the onion method
  • Timeline past
  • present
  • future
  • Artefact analysis
  • Probes for storytelling
  • Contextmapping in cross-cultural situations
  • Observations
  • Interviews
  • A smart water supply system
  • Designing hospital beds
  • Designs in context: Meaning and impact. Making a difference
  • The medium is the message
  • Personal computer and the internet
  • An iconic radio
  • Television and mass media
  • T-shirt
  • Umbrella
  • Toy bricks
  • Pointer booklets
  • The Walkman
  • Anthora coffee cup
  • Sunglasses
  • Clap skate
  • Housekeeping
  • Kitchen and cooking
  • Masks
  • Paraskevidekatriaphobia
  • Automobility
  • The wasp
  • Wheelchairs and tricycles
  • Windmills and watermills
  • Colour as a cultural code
  • Money
  • Cargo cult.