This presentation narrates my journey as a skeptical researcher into the emerging world of NFTs. After unexpectedly moving into this much-hyped space, I use the resilience that curiosity fosters to overcome my...
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The Future of Audiences & Mixed Reality Performances
ABOUT THE PRESENTER Sarah Ellis is an award-winning producer currently working as Director of Digital Development...
Indian Classical Dance: The Foundational Element in My Practice of Ethnography
PechaKucha Presentation Do we really understand how we became practitioners of ethnography? In this talk, I go through a re-discovery of the links between my lifelong training in Indian classical dance and the elements this has instilled in my current practice of ethnography. In dance, we are...
“Let’s Bring It Up to B Flat”: What Style Offers Applied Ethnographic Work
Ethnographic and design work share, deeply, the challenge of conveying the truth of the work we do to interlocutors from very different backgrounds. Writing is hard work even with the shared culture that an academic discipline or a single firm can draw upon. How, then, to write well for...
Tutorial: Sketchnoting, A Practical Toolkit to Improve Your “Scribing” Skills
Overview “Sketchnoting” is the ability to make fast and useful visual notes. It has become a recognized contemporary visual practice in different disciplines. Visual note taking can be a powerful skill for...
Working For It: Feminist Art and Ethnography
PechaKucha—Feminist art and ethnography have something in common. We examine the everyday; are interested in activism and equality. As a practitioner of both, I assert that we need feminist ethnography, especially in corporate technology research, where women are discounted because of cultural...
Ethnography and Music: Disseminating Ethnographic Research inside Organizations
In the applied context of ethnography its value depends not only on the quality of the research product alone but also on how it is received by the business audience. This paper presents some variables that describe and hope to overcome common barriers to the appropriate reception of ethnographic...