EPIC2016 Video

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Keynotes

sherry

Pathmaking: A Dialogue
John F. Sherry Jr. & John W. Sherry

Finance, Precarity, and the Dismantling of Organizations
Karen Ho

Tutorials

mba-basics-tutorial

MBA Basics – How to Think Like a Business
Instructors: Carolyn Hou & Emil Stigsgaard Fuglsang

ethnographic-thinking-tutorial

Ethnographic Thinking for Wicked Problems – Framing Systemic Challenges and Catalyzing Change
Instructors: Jay Hasbrouck & Charley Scull; Contributor: Lisa DiCarlo

semiotics-tutorial

Semiotics – A User’s Guide to Seeing Differently
Instructors: Cato Hunt & Clem McCulloch

speculative-design-tutorial

Speculative Design: Futures Prototyping for Research and Strategy
Instructors: J. Paul Neeley & Elliot Montgomery

analysis-tutorial

Structuring Analysis for Innovation
Instructors: Marcelo Fagundes & Murilo Gome

Papers

Ethnography / Organizations & Change

Powell

Media, Mediation and the Curatorial Value of Professional Anthropologists
Michael G. Powell

batteau

Cultural Change Management in Organizations from Competing Perspectives
Allen W. Batteau and Gladis Cecilia Villegas

easter

Merging Institutional Logics and Negotiated Culture Perspectives to Help Cross-Sector Partnerships
Sarah Easter and Mary Yoko Brannen

green

Ethnography is the Pathmaker to Better Care: Paving the Way to a Patient-centric Healthcare Model
Ciara Green et al

amirebrahimi

The Rise of the User and the Fall of People: Ethnographic Cooptation and a New Language of Globalization
Shaheen Amirebrahimi

Ethnography / Carnivalesque

annechino

Taking Sides in e-Cigarette Research
Rachelle Annechino and Tamar Antin

shiva

Understanding Users: The Extensions of Expectant Systems
Amir-Pouyan Shiva

Ethnography / Innovation

dorland

Tell Me Why You Did That: Learning “Ethnography” from the Design Studio
AnneMarie Dorland

tamminen

The Anthropology of Wearables: The Self, the Social, and the Autobiographical
Sakari Tamminen and Elisabet Holmgren

haines

Meaningful Innovation: Ethnographic Potential in the Startup and Venture Capital Spheres
Julia Katherine Haines

cury

Applying Theory to Applied Ethnography
Maria Cury and Daniel Bird

gottlieb

How Autoethnography Enables Sensemaking across Organizations
Frederik Gottlieb and Wafa Said Mosleh

Ethnography / Emerging Consumers

georg

What Is a Sustainable Innovation? Cultural and Contextual Contradictions in the Social Ecology of Cooking
William Schindhelm Georg, Bridgeable, and Peter Hayward Jones, OCAD University

venkatraman

Everyday Life in Tamil Nadu, India, and Its Cost to 'Free Basics'
Shriram Venkatraman and Nimmi Rangaswamy

cisero

Market Creation through Community Engagement: Combining Ethnographic and Business Thinking
Craig Cisero and Roberta Tassi

bastos

Mapping the Field of Social Businesses in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Maria Flávia Bastos, Laura Scheiber and Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodosio

hasdell

Participatory Design: Re-evaluation as a Socio-material Assembly
Peter Hasdell

Ethnography / Analytics

mahapatra

‘It’s Not Just about the Patient’: A ‘360° Feedback’ Ethnography
Jyotirmaya Mahapatra, Nimmi Rangaswamy and Sajal Nagwanshi

evans

Paco – Applying Computational Methods to Scale Qualitative Methods
Bob Evans

koskinen

How New Social Design Captures the Social with Photographs
Ilpo Koskinen

nafus

The Domestication of Data: Why Embracing Digital Data Means Embracing Bigger Questions
Dawn Nafus

Case Studies

Pathmaking with Ethnographic Approaches in and for Organizations

cuaron

How "Doing Ethnography" Fostered Collaboration in Two Organizations
Daniela Cuaron

dresner

Engineering Ethnographic Encounters to Lead to Better Project Results
Josh Dresner

rowley

Strategy as an Unfolding Network of Associations
Tom Rowley and Tom Hoy

imai

Disrupting Workspace: Designing an Office that Inspires Collaboration and Innovation
Ryoko Imai and Masahide Ban

Pathmaking in Emergent, Underserved and New Markets

kinney

Plus Size Fashion: What Happens when Stereotypes, Fueled by Popular Culture, Creep into a Retailer's Business Decisions?
Meg Kinney and Hal Phillips

giroux

Have You Heard? Using Place-Based Ethnography to Construct a Word-of-Mouth Campaign
Jennifer Giroux and Zung Nguyen

johnston

Finding a Voice in Opiate Addiction: Identifying the Role of Caregivers in the Recovery Process for VIVITROL
Gavin Johnston

solanki

#GoingEthno in the Indian Bureaucracy
Aakash Solanki and Sarvesh Tewari

vinkhuyzen

Developing Socially Acceptable Autonomous Vehicles
Erik Vinkhuyzen and Melissa Cefkin

PechaKucha

monahan

The Flat World
Bridget Monahan

dallas

The Undergraduate Anthropologist
Ruby Dallas

nave

Empathizing with the Mind of a Child
Ari Nave

daar

Biomimicry: Learning from ‘The Field’
Adina Daar

farber

A Prairie Home Revival
Brianna Farber

zafiroglu

Living Comfortably In Glass Houses
Alexandra Zafiroglu, Heather Patterson and Faith McCreary

yury

Working For It: Feminist Art and Ethnography
Carrie Yury

silva

Looking to “Right-Hand Women”: Strategies for Shaping Impactful Paths in Business
Natalia Silva & Hannah Pick

anderson-kempe

Paradoxical Thinking as a Gateway to Socio-Cultural Insights
Elizabeth Anderson-Kempe

butoliya

Critical Jugaad
Deepa Butoliya

roberts

What I Think about when I Think about Running
Simon Roberts

hartnett

“LOLZ OMG, I’M DEAD”: The Rise of Performative Behavior in Social Media
Kathleen Hartnett

wilson

When ‘Design Thinkers’ Prototype—Through an Anthropologist’s Eyes
Bryony Wilson

shatokhina

The Elephant in the Room: A Lesson from the Field
Liubava Shatokhina

hanover

A Thrice Told Truth
Evan Hanover and Marta Cuciurean-Zapa

How Asking about the Best Ice Cream Reveals Ourselves
Jennifer Ng

kayan

How a 10-Day Silent Meditation Course Made Me a Better Researcher
Shipra Kayan

blinkoff

The Full Epiphany
Robbie Blinkoff

dominski

Primates Pathmaking
John Dominski and Christena Nippert-Eng

kwant

Crescent Cove—Changing Course
Teri Kwant and Nancy O’Brien