Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: China

Out to Dry: Change and Agency Across Urban China

Out to Dry: Change and Agency Across Urban China

PechaKucha Presentation This PechaKucha will take the audience on an intimate, visual exploration of the evolving ways that clothing is dried outside across urban China as drying practices are forced to adapt to limitations by evolving regulation and perceptions of urban modernity. Increasingly,...

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

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

This paper aims towards a critical re-evaluation of Participatory Design processes based on a completed collaborative research (2015) in rural China. The study involved two complementary disciplines; the Applied Social Sciences and Design and their corresponding research methodologies; Action...