EPIC2022 Amsterdam | Resilience

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

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Keynotes

Keynote

Creating Companies and Products Conducive to Life

Melissa Gregg

Keynote

Defining Social Determinants for Resilient Health

Kurt Ward

Keynote

The Next Billion Creatives

Payal Arora

Case Studies

Case Study

Creating Resiliency of Research Findings: Ethnographic Methods to Combat Research Amnesia

Kristen L. Guth

Case Study

Cybersecurity in the Icelandic Multiverse

Meghan McGrath

Case Study

Designing and Conducting Inclusive Research

DANA C. GIERDOWSKI et al.

Case Study

Designing and Envisioning a More Resilient Social System

SOFIA CARVALHO

Case Study

Dismantling Stereotypes: Building Better Representation in Advertising for Unilever

STEPHANIE BARRETT & SIDDHARTH KANORIA

Case Study

How a Government Organization Embraced Ethnographic Methods for Service Resilience

Mithula Naik & Colin MacArthur

Case Study

Navigating the Next with Resilience: Global Portfolio Strategy in a World of Uncertainty

GIULIA ELISA GASPERI et al.

Case Study

Reconnecting with the Public

Lok Yi Lee & Xinyi Jiang

Papers

Paper

Against Resiliency: An Ethnographic Manifesto

Lauren Monsein Rhodes & Jillian Powers

Paper

Amplifying Resilient Communities: Community Practices Inform Health System Design

Romit Raj et al.

Paper

Beyond Representation: Infrastructure Studies to Reframe Ethnographic Agendas and Outcomes

Karl Mendonca

Paper

Beyond Zoom Fatigue: Ritual and Resilience in Remote Meetings

Suzanne L. Thomas et al.

Paper

Building Resilient Futures in the Everyday: Virtual Worlds and Social Resilience of Teens During COVID-19

Julian Gopffarth et al.

Paper

Cultivating Resiliencies for All: Trauma Responsive Research

Matthew Bernius & Rachael Dietkus

Paper

Jobs Not to be Done: Anti-Work Politics and the Resilience of Mutual Aid

Todd Carmody

Paper

Rehearsing Imagined Futures: Creative Performance as a Resilient Process among Refugees

Nicole Aleong

Paper

The Ethnography of a DAO: De-mystifying Algorithmic Systems

Kelsie Nabben & MICHAEL ZARGHAM

Paper

The Giving Caregivers: Resilience as a Double-Edged Sword in the Context of Healthcare

Juliana Saldarriaga

Paper

Theory Instruments as Tangible Ways of Knowing

Jessica Sorenson et al.

PechaKucha

PechaKucha

“Buy Now, Pay Later” as Resilient Credit

Rachel Aalders

PechaKucha

Becoming Digitally Resilient: Online Government Services and Low Ability Users

YONI LEFEVRE & DOROTA GAZY

PechaKucha

Beneath the Hype: Self-Ethnography to Explore the Human Possibilities within NFT Technology

Jake Silva

PechaKucha

Laughing All The Way To EPIC

Evan Hanover

PechaKucha

Mapping the Messy: Storytelling-as-Resilience, Academia-as-Fieldsite

Lisa Koeman

PechaKucha

Research and Design in Controversial Spaces

STEFANI BACHETTI

PechaKucha

Resilience: Lessons from a Period of Disruption

TRACI THOMAS

PechaKucha

Resisting Resilience: An Anthropologist’s Paradox

Nadya Pohran

PechaKucha

Show Must Go On: How Can Ballet Help Us Strengthen Ethnographic Practice?

Almina Karya Odabasi

PechaKucha

Social Resilience

JENNY RABODZEENKO & KELLY COSTELLO

PechaKucha

The Myth of the Pipeline Problem: Creating a Diverse and Thriving Team

Shakima Jackson-Martinez

PechaKucha

With the Phone in the Field: Making the Ethnographic Toolbox Resilient to Change

SIGNE HELBO GREGERS SØRENSEN

Tutorials

Tutorial

An Ethnographer's Guide to 360 Video

Karl Mendonca & Bryan Woods

Tutorial

Creating a Responsible AI Practice

Kathy Baxter & Yoav Schlesinger

Tutorial

Cultural Domain Analysis: Methods for Human Insight Research

Rosalyn Negrón

Tutorial

Frameworks and Foundations for Team Development

Molly Stevens

Tutorial

From Research to Action: Leading Teams through Synthesis

Marta Cuciurean-Zapan

Tutorial

Human-Centered Recruitment 101

Jenny Lee et al.

Tutorial

Power Tools for Equity in Research and Design

Chelsea Mauldin & Natalia Radywyl

Tutorial

Research for Accessible and Inclusive Design

Gregory Weinstein & Erica McCoy

Tutorial

Seeing Differently: An Introduction to Semiotics

Cato Hunt

Tutorial

Spatial Ethnography: A Place-Based Approach to Research

Gemma John & Sophie Goodman

Tutorial

Systems Theory in Strategic Practice

Scott Matter

Tutorial

Using Ethnofutures to Build Resilience

Jan English-Lueck et al.

Sponsored

Building Accessible Experiences

Kirin Khan et al.

Sponsored

Defining Hybrid User Research: Practices for Distributed and Remote-First Environments

Audrey Tse et al.

Sponsored

Rewriting Customer Archetypes

Leisa Reichelt et al.

Sponsored

Reflections on Being a Resilient Researcher

Jasmine Low et al.

Special Sessions

Special Session

Let’s Shift Power Together! An EPIC Co-Creation Activity

Chelsea Mauldin & Natalia Radywyl

Special Session

New Words for New Worlds

Cato Hunt

Special Session

Preservation through Innovation

ZOSHA WARPEHA

Special Session

Silence: Divergent Listening in the Anthropocene

GRANT CUTLER

Special Session

The Climate Crisis as Learning Space

FLOOR BASTEN & MARC COENDERS

Special Session

When Resilience Becomes Resistance: Relational Mindfulness

Chelsea Coe & JONATHAN DEFAVERI

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