Ethnography can be a divining rod for the future. Though speculative, the study of cultural signals to seed...
Genre: PechaKucha
Resilience: Lessons from a Period of Disruption
What happens when the research lens is turned inward? As a Strategic Designer, I spend most of time planning for research to engage with people so I can better understand their needs and behaviors and turn research insights into actionable solutions. In this PechaKucha, I share a personal...
Mapping the Messy: Using Visual Noise to Convey Not All Journeys Are Linear
In order to communicate research findings, industry researchers rely on a wide range of tools to convey insights. A prime example are visualisations depicting steps in a journey in a sequential order. The use of such a visual representation is often meant to summarise commonalities in a simplified...
Living Comfortably In Glass Houses
PechaKucha—Our homes are becoming instrumented glass houses where even the most intimate and personal acts may leave data footprints that companies providing services (and potentially others) can access. As homes become instrumented with data-generating technologies, existing information...
Sankofa; Look Back, Side-Eye the Future
This PechaKucha is an invitation into Sasha’s journey, probing questions such as: What is the true meaning of...
Toilet Talk: The Subtle Art of Awkward Research
Imagine you are dealing with bladder or bowel problems, and while sometimes your life is joyful, you also...
Show Must Go On: How Can Ballet Help Us Strengthen Ethnographic Practice?
This PechaKucha is drawn from research conducted as an organizational ethnography at The Dutch National Ballet (DNB), a renowned professional organization in the culture and arts sector in the Netherlands. However, just like most research trajectories, mine was also full of hurdles that I needed...
Hands Are People Too: Reflections on the Value of Hands (and How to Study Them)
PechaKucha Presentation—Did you know that hands have bodies, relationships, and minds of their own? In the coming years as a new wave of technologies focused on our hands is under development, and as AR/VR may include haptics as a key mode of interaction, we need to design for hands as we would...
A History of EPIC in 20 Unwritten Proposals
Evan explores the history of the EPIC conference and community – its themes and contexts – by pitching a series...
Saving (Tattoo) Clients from Themselves
Drawing on direct experience with professional tattooing, Dustin explores the art and strategy of saving clients...