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Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 8648 Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 8632 Email : a.drazin@ucl.ac.uk Room: 145 Office hours: Tuesdays 10-12 |
Adam Drazin is an
anthropologist who works on design and with designers. He obtained his PhD in anthropology at UCL in 2001, on the material culture of care in Romania. For the last three years, he has been
lecturing in Ireland at Trinity College Dublin on themes including material
culture, globalisation and migration, gender and the home.
Adam is running the new MA programme in
Culture, Materials and Design. He aims
to promote the broad spectrum of ways in which anthropology engages with design
and materials, and explore how dialogues with institutions in the private and
public sectors can advance anthropological understandings, particularly through
the use of object-focussed design methodologies.
In the past, he has conducted postdoctoral research in Ireland on Irish-romanian homes and constructions of openness, and has worked as a design anthropologist with engineers and designers in companies including Intel and HP Labs. This latter work has included work on memory and remembering, the material culture of ageing, and the intersection of mobility and isolation in later life. He has also lectured in anthropology at NUI Maynooth and Dublin Business School; and has taught ethnographic methodologies to design students at the RCA in London, NCAD Dublin, and TU/e Eindhoven. He is an external examiner for the Glasgow School of Art’s BDes and MDes programmes, and has published in a number of journals and collections.
