Lecture Series
A Design Anthropology of What? Designing and Anthropologies Beyond Academic Experimentation
Mahmoud Keshavarz
Online event
07 May, 14.00 2025
Drawing on his current book project, Border Situations: Essays on Designing, Anthropologies and Politics in a Confined World, Keshavarz takes a critical look at the current state of design anthropology and ask: what is design anthropology good for, if not to rattle the foundation of the inherently violent and exploitative nature of designing caused by the anthropological project of modernity? Mahmoud Keshavarz is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Keshavarz is author of The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent (2019), co-editor of Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below (2022), and was co-editor-in-chief of the journal Design and Culture between 2019 and 2023.