We are surrounded by messages urging us to see the suffering, injustice, and corruption of both the natural and...
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Research and Design in Controversial Spaces
Research within public safety and law enforcement in America highlights important issues and considerations for designers and researchers. Within this industry exists controversial points of views and high stakes consequences. How do we as researchers balance empathy in spaces where points of...
Anticipating Shared Futures: Emotion, Connection & Relationships
PechaKucha Presentation—Unprecedented. Unprecedented. Unprecedented. How often did we hear that word at the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic? But was it really unprecedented? We’ve been warned for years that a pandemic was imminent. We know the world has been devastated by them in the past. So...
How to Work Responsibly with Emerging Technologies
Existing human-centered approaches to research and design are not adequate to effectively address emerging...
Strategic Foresight Methods for Innovation
It's difficult for researchers in industry to focus their stakeholders on the future, given the relentless...
What’s Next versus What’s Valuable: Perspectives on the Value of Ethnography in a Future-Focused World
Ethnographers operating in the future-focused context of business consultancy face a core challenge. Our approach is holistic and human-centric, “based on the researcher sharing time and space with the people he or she wants to understand, establishing relationships with them and thereby...