Who should flex, resist, or adapt? What should be restored, abandoned, or reinvented?

How do people, practitioners, and organizations document, anticipate, and craft potential futures?

How does scale define the scopes, contexts, and impacts of business value and our own work?

What does it mean to have agency in an increasingly automated world?

What comes of changing scope; shifting positions; subverting norms?

What are the pathways to transformative innovation and value for organizations and communities?

How do we create value by connecting diverse people, places, and disciplines?

What are the positive values and relations that can lead to new value?

What are the evolving challenges and opportunities for ethnography in industry, policy, and design?

Explore dynamics and practices of change, from continuous adaptation to sharp discontinuities.

道 Dō captures the sense of individual mastery that is achieved only through community.

How can we be effective and relevant in today’s challenging economic climate?

How might practices and paradoxes of (in)visibility and advance our work?

What does it mean to have voice, to represent, to be represented, to express, to be heard?

What do social theory and methods bring to industry’s focus on individualization?