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Ethnography for Textile Design as a Cultural Catalyst
Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
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Ethnography for Textile Design as a Cultural Catalyst
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Gurcum, PhD, Banu Hatice
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Design is now becoming a generalizable discipline that may be applied to all kinds of processes and interfaces. To understand design as a discipline that can function within any solution requires developing a general theory for design. From methodological perspective there is no solid theoretical framework which can assist the craftsman or the novice textile designer to consciously integrate their culture in designing products. On the other hand, with its roots in cultural anthropology, and many ways to explore and understand everyday realities of people living in small scale, non-western societies, ethnography’s main focal point is at small-scale societies and the original central concept remains within the meaning of culture. Its basic approach summarized the ability of all humans to figure out what is going on through participation in social life.When compared to other methodologies, the field of design has always been an adjunct to art and craft but in a postmodern context the transformation of design into an industrial discipline brought responsibilities and design studies had to address methodologies. Though the techniques ethnographers use follow the routine of the everyday life, new sets of challenges are created as they design and built applications that leverage powerful, digital technologies for use by people of all societies and cultures.Thus this paper’s purpose is to present ethnography as a research method for product design especially textile product design.To understand the importance of ethnographic research in textile design and explain qualitative techniques that can be used in field researches for textile design, searching for meaning in socially constructed reality or a traditional context, the methods ethnography share with textile design, development process, the importance of the designer participating in the research, and how the research assists problem finding, an important aspect of creativity and innovation are discussed.Keywords:Ethnographic research, textile design, design science research.
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Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
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2016-10-14
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/130
10.15520/jassh210130 |
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Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities; Vol 2, No 10 (2016)
2395-6542 10.15520/jassh210 |
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eng
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http://jassh.in/index.php/jassh/article/view/130/136
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Copyright (c) 2016 Journal of Advances in Social Science and Humanities
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