ABSTRACT
Design means re-imagining anthropology as well. If we would like to “restore design to the heart of anthropology’s disciplinary practice” (Ingold and Gatt 2013: 140), then we must also dismantle the hoary dichotomies that have undermined possibilities for an anthropology defined by political practice. Doing this may be achievable through a design anthropology infused with a Bloch-ian hope for alternative possibilities. And through this, we may be able to sketch the possibility for an anthropology that engages what it really means to be human, i.e., to be a person desirous of a better world. This chapter considers design as a future horizon for a multimodal anthropology, one premised on deep collaboration and a transformative ethos.
