Learn about new concepts and practices in the evolving intersections of ethnography and design. Overview This talk explores the role of ethnographers when collaborating with designers, and especially about how...
Tag: design anthropology
Physicalizations of Big Data in Ethnographic Context
With the Big Data hype, making digital data accessible and relatable for non-data experts is becoming an increasing challenge. In this paper we suggest Data Physicalization as a novel approach to facilitate conversations with collaborators about the meaning of data. While this challenge has been...
Design as a Cultural System
I don’t think I’m supposed to admit this, at least not publicly, but it’s true: talking about design drives me to drink. Not literally of course (I’m a teetotaler!), but metaphorically. Why? Because design itself isn’t really a single term, but a collection of homonyms, each of which bears some...