Society for Cultural Anthropology

Volunteered - Oral Presentation Session

Transforming Anthropological Insights into Architectural Design Drivers: An Ethnographic Case Study with a Danish Architecture Firm

Architecture/Built Environment, Design, Interdisciplinary

Presenter(s)

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  Drew Thilmany

  PhD Fellow
  University of Copenhagen / Henning Larsen Architects

Drawing on fieldwork conducted with a Danish architecture firm from 2017-2019, this paper examines the anthropological fieldwork and interdisciplinary design process for a building that will soon begin construction in Toronto. Focusing on the ways in which anthropological methods and insights become architectural design drivers within the project, this paper explores how the concept of “inclusivity” emerged as a design dimension, became a research object, and was transformed into a spatial concept that could circulate through the design process.