Myk Anusas

Edinburgh College of Art

Education

• Cultural Anthropologist, trained in anthropology and design studies.

Professional Experience / Research

• Based in the Design & Screen Cultures (D&SC) Teaching and Research group, School of Design.

• Teaching and research focus: how people design, make and mediate the world, with implications for social and ecological relations.

• Philosophical grounding in phenomenology; uses collaborative methods including academic writing, drawing, photography, and making.

• Research interests: perception and shaping of the world through surfaces, intersections of form (object, texture, weave) with politics, race, and ecology.

• Led the Design Anthropology theme within the ERC FP7 grant Knowing From the Inside (KFI): Anthropology, Art, Architecture and Design.

Publications

• Designing Anthropological Futures (edited volume, Bloomsbury).

• Cultural Anthropology (journal, AAA).

• Design Issues (journal, MIT) — article “Designing Environmental Relations,” also translated and published in Chinese.