by Melissa Cefkin, Erik Stayton | Sep 11, 2017 | Perspective
As researchers working on automated vehicles, we are grappling with fundamental questions about how to do research and design for the future. Or, to be more precise, how can we tap into and participate in futures that are in the process of being made, that may both...
by EPIC People | Sep 6, 2017 | Update
submit your news | become a member Around the world EPIC Members are doing amazing things! Their achievements inform and inspire our community, advancing the value of ethnography. Check out this recent work: [full_width]Meghan McGrath, a design researcher on the IBM...
by Bill Selman, Gemma Petrie | Aug 22, 2017 | Perspective
In his 2015 novel, Satin Island, Tom McCarthy’s protagonist (known only as “U”) is a corporate anthropologist working for an outre design research firm whose work embodies all the absurd contradictions of late capitalism. The highly influential firm’s logo is “a...
by Anne McClard | Aug 7, 2017 | Perspective
“A radical approach specifically aims to uncover root causes and original sources, as opposed to surface level explanations.” —Thomas Wendt Thomas Wendt is one of many eloquent voices urging designers and ethnographers to take responsibility for the social roots and...
by Tom Hoy | Jul 18, 2017 | Perspective
Jan Chipchase has done something few of us would dare: write down his trade secrets and give them away in a book. In The Field Study Handbook he shares hard-earned lessons from running ethnographic research projects across the world. At face value the Handbook...
