Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an inflection point, bringing heightened awareness around the preparedness and resilience of public health systems in dealing with severe shocks. While the pandemic has...
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Doing Ethnography in AirSpace: The Promise and Danger of ‘Frictionless’ Global Research
‘AirSpace’, according to Kyle Chayka, is the increasingly homogenized experience of the western(ized) business traveller, driven by major tech platforms (including Google, Airbnb and Uber.) As international travellers, ethnographers must account for the impact of AirSpace on their research...
Friction and Innovation in Chicago Neighborhoods
https://vimeo.com/803229626 "Friction can be either good, bad, or something in between. But it will always be the start of change." The South Side of Chicago—site of EPIC2023 and the neighborhood where Tayler Ulmer grew up—was birthed from friction. In this Lightning Talk, Tayler explores how...
Frictions and the Politics of Ethnography
by [contrib_author post_id='42828' name='Scott Matter'], University of Technology Sydney https://vimeo.com/803204349 Our collaborations extend well beyond our teams, stakeholders, and research participants to complex global systems defined by friction. In this lightning talk, Scott Matter inspires...
EPIC2023—The Big Reveal!
Hello! We are Marta Cuciurean-Zapan, Director of Research and Insights at IDEO, and Evan Hanover, Director at Conifer Research. We are incredibly excited to invite everyone in the room today and online, EPIC members past, present, and future to… …Chicago, Illinois, for EPIC2023 next October!...