by Gerald Lombardi | May 9, 2017 | Perspective
Interest in the unconscious and the instinctual has been on the ascent for several years now in many research realms that EPIC members inhabit. In consumer research particularly, where I’ve been a practicing anthropologist for years, the findings of neuroscience,...
by Thomas Wendt | May 1, 2017 | Perspective
Sustainability & Ethnography in Business Series, Mike Youngblood, Editor “Revolution is not about destroying capitalism, but about refusing to create it.” —John Holloway1 Serious designers must be radicals. If we are truly enraged by the political, ecological, and...
by Josef Wieland | Apr 24, 2017 | Perspective
EPIC Profiles Series As the Program Chair for EPIC2017, Rita Denny is not shy about what we can learn when we come together as a diverse professional community of social researchers and designers and marketers: “First, that there is a world of possibility....
by Michael Donovan | Mar 6, 2017 | Perspective
Sustainability & Ethnography in Business Series, Mike Youngblood, Editor Place making offers us a largely untraveled pathway to thinking about sustainability. These two relatively high order concepts—’place making’ and ‘sustainability’—are...
by Caroline Turnbull | Mar 1, 2017 | Perspective
Sustainability & Ethnography in Business Series, Mike Youngblood, Editor Sustainability initiatives—social, economic or environmental—can have universal value for stakeholders. But how sustainability is defined, and what successful solutions might look like, can...