Elizabeth Tunstall
Design Anthropology, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Decolonization of Design
Public lecture: April 4 2011
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Elizabeth Tunstall
Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall is an Associate Professor of Design Anthropology and Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. She leads Swinburne’s Masters of Design Program in Design Anthropology—a field that seeks to understand how the processes and artifacts of design help define what it means to be human. She is also co-lead with Dr. Norm Sheehan of the research group on Indigenous Knowledge and Design Anthropology.
She is passionate about civically-engaged design that creates politically informed and enfranchised people. She served as a director of AIGA’s Design for Democracy and is currently organizer of the U.S. National Design Policy Summit and Initiative.
Engaged with the design field for over 10 years, Elizabeth has worked at Sapient Corporation, Arc Worldwide, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. and MA in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College.
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