Lecture 4 on Critical Perspectives in Design Ethnography and Anthropology for undergraduate students at Swinburne University. We highlight the need to think about gender, power, politics and so forth to go beyond conventional design approaches

1. Lecture 4: Critical Perspectives
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2. Critical perspectives
 Critical perspectives place emphasis on values, power, injustice …
 Tendency in design and applied settings to ignore this aspect
 Strong and weaker approaches to this possible
 Consider whether and how this aspect can inform your worlk

3. Personal perspective
Work with migrant ESL settings in NZ
Critical ethnography approach
Questions about teaching, migrant lives,
and other aspects
Subsequent writing on related issues

4. Critical questions
What values and attitudes are
represented in the setting
What Discourses of sustainability,
consumption, the individual, class etc., are
present (or silent)?
How to represent this – an example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9ATKyTePso

5. Silence or voice on value issues

6. Finding your own position
 Consequence(s) for your research?
 Where do you see the role for studying values?
 What aspects of sustainability and practice does this affect?

7. Flipped Presentation 3