Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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Shared Ethnography of Shared Cities

Shared Ethnography of Shared Cities

This paper aims to foreground issues for design ethnographers working in urban contexts within the smart-city discourse. It highlights ethnography's role in a shared urban future by exploring how ethnographers might pave the way for envisioning digital infrastructure at the core of Smart City...

If These Walls Could Talk: The Mental Life of the Built Environment

If These Walls Could Talk: The Mental Life of the Built Environment

Renewing Henri Lefebvre’s unfinished and overlooked science of ‘rhythmanalysis,’ I propose physical space becomes meaningful to us to the extent that it provides refuge from the ravages of time—specifically, the intersecting rhythms of everyday life. In other words, we develop affinity with space...

Riding with Heidegger: A New Perspective on the Premium Vehicle

Riding with Heidegger: A New Perspective on the Premium Vehicle

The car has been the subject of social scientific research for decades. Scholars have described the empowerment people feel through the physical sensations of speed and acceleration. The ability of the premium vehicle to express status has been a staple of literature on signaling and social...

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,...