Laurence Douny, PhD

Monographien & Bücher

Douny, L. 2014. Living in a Landscape of Scarcity: Materiality and Cosmology in West Africa. London: Routledge.

Harris, S., Douny, L. 2014. Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. London: Routledge.

Artikel in Sammelbänden

Douny, L. 2019. »Slavery histories from the peripheries: the making of heritage landscapes in Western Burkina Faso.« In Atlantic Perspectives. Places, Spirits and Heritage, edited by Balkenhol M., Blanes R., Sarró R. London: Berghahn Books, 233-248.

Douny, L. 2015. »Wild Silk Indigo Textiles of West Africa: An Ethnography of Materials.« In The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials & Society, edited by Kuechler, S., Drazin, A. London: Bloomsbury, 101-118.

Artikel

Douny, L. 2022. »West African Wild Silks: A Conjuncture of Material Temporalities.« Materials and Time. An Anthology. forthcoming.
https://materials.hypotheses.org/

Douny, L. 2020. »The Material Agency of West African Wild Silk. An Ethnographic Exploration into Marka-Dafing Conceptions of Sheen.« In »Modes of Human Engagement with Materiality: Potentialities of Access to Things« edited by Golivina, K. and Doi, K., special issue. Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology, 21 (1): 1-23.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14890/jrca.21.1_291

Douny, L. 2019. »From Pits to Pots: Indigo Dyeing Traditions of the Maransé of Burkina Faso.« In Craft and the Technology of Textiles, edited by Lowengard S., special issue. Society for the History of Technology. Technology’s Stories, 7 (2)
https://doi.org/10.15763/jou.ts.2019.06.13.01

Douny, L. 2018. »Conserving Millet with Potash: Towards a Dogon Epistemology of Materials.« In Le Temps des Aliments, special issue. Techniques & Culture, 69 (1)
https://journals.openedition.org/tc/8850

Douny, L. 2017. »Connecting Worlds through Silk: The Cosmological Significance of Sheen in West African Talismanic Magic.« Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, 12 (2): 186-209.
https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2017.0020

Douny, L. 2013. »Wild Silk Textiles of the Dogon of Mali: The Production, Material Efficacy, and Cultural Significance of Sheen.« Textiles: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, 11 (1): 58-77.
https://doi.org/10.2752/175183513X13588738654891

Douny, L. 2011. »Silk-embroidered garments as transformative processes: layering, inscribing and displaying Hausa material identities.« Journal of Material Culture, 16 (4): 401-415.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183511424197

Douny, L. 2011. »The role of earth shrines in the socio-symbolic construction of the Dogon territory: towards a philosophy of containment.« Anthropology & Medicine, 18 (2): 167-179.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2011.591194

Coupaye, L., Douny, L. 2009. »Dans la Trajectoire des Choses. Comparaison des approches francophones et anglophones contemporaines en anthropologie des techniques.« In Technologies, special issue. Techniques & Culture, 52-53 (1): 12-39.
https://journals.openedition.org/tc/4956

Naji, M., Douny, L. 2009. »The ‘Making’ and ‘Doing’ of the Material World: French Anthropology of Techniques Revisited: Editorial.« Journal of Material Culture, 14 (4): 411-432.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183509346184

Douny, L. 2007. »The Materiality of Domestic Waste. The Recycled Cosmology of the Dogon of Mali.« Journal of Material Culture, 12: 309-331.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183507081897

Tagungsbände

Douny, L., Hernández Lobato, J. I., Séré, A., Sawadogo, S., Hengge, R. 2023. »The hunter shirt: the role of Acacia nilotica in fermentative textile dyeing.« Presented at the XXXI International Horticultural Congress (IHC2022): International Symposium on Natural Colorants from Plants. International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), 67-76.
https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2023.1361.8

Ausstellungen

Douny, L. (curator), Krauthausen, K. (curator), Sattler, F. (curator), Thindi, T. (film installation). DAOULA | sheen. West African Wild Silk on Its Way. Exhibition. In cooperation with Séré, A., Sawadogo, S., Dayo, L., Dayo, H., Fofana, A., Sakira, S., Dao, D., Sanogo, B., Séré, M., Konate, A., Ilboudo, M. in Burkina Faso and Bonavia, E., Buch, S., Dierichs, K., Eder, M., Farmer, J., Hathroubi, S., Hengge, R., Hernández Lobato, J. I., Illing-Günther, H., Hassoune, S., Mählmann, J., Panzer, M. M., Rešetar, I., Rosenthal, N., Santos Thomas, C., Sauer, C., Sermonet, J., Shone, J., Schneider, M., Strauß, W. in Germany. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Tieranatomisches Theater. 17 November 2022 - 29 April 2023.
https://tieranatomisches-theater.de/project/ausstellung-ab-17-november-2022daoula-sheenwest-african-wild-silk-on-its-way/

Talks & Präsentationen

Bonavia, Elaine, Farmer, Jessica, Douny, Laurence, Krauthausen, Karin, Sattler, Felix, Dierichs, Karola. Weaving with the Data Glove - From the Cocoon into the Computer and Back Again. DAOULA | sheen. West African Wild Silk on Its Way, Tieranatomisches Theater (Veterinary Anatomy Theater), Berlin. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 16 February 2023.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/10084/weaving-with-the-data-glove-from-the-cocoon-into-the-computer-and-back-again

Bonavia, E., Mballa-Ekobena, A., Farmer, J., Douny, L., Rosenthal, N., Stoll, M., Wenig, C., Dierichs, K. Augmented Spinning: Haptic Construction of a Filament-based Architectural Material System. Talk at the 25th Annual DRHA Conference »Digital Matters: Designing/Performing Agency for the Anthropocene«, Scene, Atmosphere & Architecture. Heilig-Geist-Kapelle, Berlin. Organized by the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2020 »Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective«, Freie Universität Berlin, and the practice-based research project »Viral Theatres«. Hybrid. 5 September 2021.
https://www.drha.uk/2021/program-2/#h.hsg54n4r2ivu

Douny, L. Degumming West African Wild Silks in the 20th and 21st Century Burkina Faso. Talk at the »Animal Materialities«, joined panel of History of Science Society and Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Animal Materialities. Virtual. 10 October 2020.
https://www.historyoftechnology.org/annual-meeting/2020-shot-virtual-forum-8-11-october/

Douny, L. Earth Structures: Containment and Scarcity in the Sahel. Talk at the »Material as Environmental Device«, Essential Material. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 10 September 2020.

Events & Workshops

Douny, L., Krauthausen, K., Sattler, F., Ilboudo, M., Sawadogo, S., Fofana, S., Séré, A., Dayo, L. Daoula/West African wild silks: preparation of the Berlin/Ouagadougou exhibition. Musee de la Musique Georges Ouedraogo, Ouagadougou. 10 July 2022 - 21 July 2022.

Teaching & Kurse

Dierichs, K., Bonavia, E., Douny, L., Eder, M., Farmer, J., Rosenthal, N., Stoll, M., Wenig, C. Minimal Machines 1 - Augmented Spinning. MoA Design Research Studio, weißensee school of art and design berlin. 6 April 2021 - 13 July 2021.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/posts/7360

Dierichs, K., Farmer, J., Bonavia, E., Mballa-Ekobena, A., Douny, L., Eder, M., Rosenthal, N., Stoll, M. Designing Matter 1 - From Filament to Fabric. MoA Design Research Studio, weißensee school of art and design berlin. 5 October 2020 - 26 March 2021.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/3454/designing-matter-1-from-filament-to-fabric

External Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships & Residencies

Douny, L. 2020. West African wild silks techniques: Preserving Marka-Dafing’s heritage of knowledge. Arcadia Fund - The British Museum Project funding.
https://www.emkp.org/west-african-wild-silks-techniques-preserving-marka-dafings-heritage-of-knowledge/

Presseartikel

Ingolf, P. 2023. »Gemeinsam spinnen. Von Afrikas Wissen für die Zukunft lernen.« About the exhibition »DAOULA | sheen« of Douny, L., Krauthausen K. and Sattler, F. Tagesspiegel, 19 January 2023.

Patz, I. 2023. »Gemeinsam spinnen. Von Afrikas Wissen für die Zukunft Lernen.« On the exhibition »DAOULA | sheen« curated by Douny, L., Krauthausen, K., Sattler, F. TAGESSPIEGEL, 19 January 2023.