Designing Environmental Relations: From Opacity to Textility

Mike Anusas is Lecturer in Design at the University of Strathclyde. He has worked as a designer in the consulting, manufacturing and building industries. His design teaching focuses on perception, drawing and creativity. His current research and practicebased work is concerned with form and surface and its relation to environmental perception, contributing to the emerging interdisciplinary field of design anthropology.

Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organization in the circumpolar North, on evolutionary theory, human-animal relations, language and tool use, environmental perception and skilled practice. He is currently exploring issues on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture.