Applying Cultural Knowledge to Design Problems

[Brenda Smith]

Great lecture! As a former graphic designer and Comm/amwerican Studies
student, I never shut up. Built spaces and their rhetorical purposes...yes!


Bjs

On Thursday, August 25, 2011, Miller | The Policy Lab <
derekbmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> This lecture was presented in March, 2009, to the U.S. Training and
Doctrine Command's "Culture Summit." It was co-authored with Lisa Rudnick.
It is is a 40 minute lecture that introduces the military to the idea of
using cultural knowledge as a strategic asset in the design of local action
— not to win wars, but rather to better achieve social and political
objectives in culturally unfamiliar contexts.
> This lecture was the first piece by Miller/Rudnick that properly explored
the issue of design, and the movement of cultural knowledge to design
processes. Now over two years old, the piece is only starting to gain some
traction, including a recent invitation to lecture to NATO Center's of
Excellence on Reducing Cultural Barriers to Maritime Security (also
available on Academia.edu)
>
http://thepolicylab.academia.edu/DerekBMiller/Papers/887307/Applying_Cultural_Knowledge_to_Design_Problems_Notes_for_the_U.S._Military_about_Challenges_and_Opportunities
> Of particular interest to those interested in applying ethnocomm
approaches to solving problems that benefit from comparative cultural
discourse analysis.
> This piece has published in an academic journal but is also available on
UNIDIR's website.
> Derek Miller
> PS. On a personal note, I'm very pleased to have this listserv running,
but it would also be nice if we took advantage to actually chat a bit about
topics on our minds. 130 very quiet people out there. Meanwhile, I'm active
on a listserv with designers and they never stop talking …
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Brenda Joy Smith
Graduate Assistant
American Studies Department
Saint Louis University

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