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  • Week 1: Introduction: What is Anthro-Engineering? Why Ulaanbaatar? What the Heck is a Molten Salt Thermal Brick?

  • Week 2: Bridging Anthropology and Engineering

  • Week 3: Illuminating What’s in the Dark: Anthropological Concerns and Approaches

  • Week 4: Mongolian “Culture” and Everyday Life in the Ger Districts

  • Week 5: Choking on Smoke and Ulaanbaatar’s Polycrises

  • Week 6: Anthropology of Energy—Culture, Agency, Values

  • Week 7: Molten Salt Heat Brick Prototypes and Thinking with and against the Brick | Ger Districts Interventions

  • Week 8: Anthropology of Energy—Markets and Infrastructures

  • Week 9: Technology and Power: Designing What, by Whom, for Whom, and with Whom?

  • Week 10: Engineering for Development: Equity, Justice, and the Pluriverse

  • Week 11: Sustainability, Interdisciplinarity, and Collaboration: Promises and Pitfalls

  • Week 12: Evaluating Success and Failure

  • Week 13: Energy Ethnographies | Technology “Users” and Holistic Design

  • Week 14: Ulaanbaatar Trip Planning and Prototyping Anthro-Engineering

  • Week 15: Wrap-Up

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  • Prof. Michael Short
  • Dr. Lauren Bonilla
Departments
  • Anthropology
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Fall 2023
Level
Undergraduate
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  • Engineering
    • Environmental Engineering
  • Humanities
  • Social Science
    • Anthropology
    • Urban Studies
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21A.S01 | Fall 2023 | Undergraduate

Anthro-Engineering: Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale

  • Syllabus

  • Week 1: Introduction: What is Anthro-Engineering? Why Ulaanbaatar? What the Heck is a Molten Salt Thermal Brick?

  • Week 2: Bridging Anthropology and Engineering

  • Week 3: Illuminating What’s in the Dark: Anthropological Concerns and Approaches

  • Week 4: Mongolian “Culture” and Everyday Life in the Ger Districts

  • Week 5: Choking on Smoke and Ulaanbaatar’s Polycrises

  • Week 6: Anthropology of Energy—Culture, Agency, Values

  • Week 7: Molten Salt Heat Brick Prototypes and Thinking with and against the Brick | Ger Districts Interventions

  • Week 8: Anthropology of Energy—Markets and Infrastructures

  • Week 9: Technology and Power: Designing What, by Whom, for Whom, and with Whom?

  • Week 10: Engineering for Development: Equity, Justice, and the Pluriverse

  • Week 11: Sustainability, Interdisciplinarity, and Collaboration: Promises and Pitfalls

  • Week 12: Evaluating Success and Failure

  • Week 13: Energy Ethnographies | Technology “Users” and Holistic Design

  • Week 14: Ulaanbaatar Trip Planning and Prototyping Anthro-Engineering

  • Week 15: Wrap-Up

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Mongolia Coal briquette production and distribution
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Mongolia Coal briquette production and distribution.docx
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Object Lesson Assignment—Brainstorming Questions
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Object Lesson Assignment—Brainstorming Questions

Course Info

Instructors
  • Prof. Michael Short
  • Dr. Lauren Bonilla
Departments
  • Anthropology
As Taught In
Fall 2023
Level
Undergraduate
Topics
  • Engineering
    • Environmental Engineering
  • Humanities
  • Social Science
    • Anthropology
    • Urban Studies
Learning Resource Types
assignment Design Assignments
assignment Activity Assignments
assignment Presentation Assignments

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