In this paper, we explore what architectural practice and, more specifically, the architectural
research domain, may gain from the theoretical and methodological premise of …

As professionally trained designers position their practices as central to social change, they
bring with them efficiency in process, technical expertise, sophisticated aesthetic skills, and …

Assistive devices serve as vectors for the ideals, judgments, and goals that their society of
origin has towards people with disabilities. For some Ugandan inventors and prosthetists …

In this article, we highlight a partnership between CommuniVax and a human‐centered
design firm (Bridgeable) that resulted in CommuniVaxCHAT—an online toolkit capable of …

This article the role of applied ethnography in an interdisciplinary project by a group of
architects, urban planners, historians, and anthropologists focused on water reuse for urban …

This doctoral dissertation examines the use of anthropological knowledge in a commercial
context. I use three projects of my career as an example, the Mobile phone research (1998 …

Programs in disaster management have turned to community participation as a way to
strengthen the agency of affected populations given the increasing scale, complexity, and …

This doctoral thesis presents three studies in collaboration with the open source FLAX
project (Flexible Language Acquisition flax. nzdl. org). This research makes an original …