EPIC2021 | Anticipation

How do we document, anticipate, and craft potential futures?

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Welcome & Theme

Welcome & Theme

Little Dramas Everywhere: Using Ethnography to Anticipate the Future

J.A. English-Lueck et al.

Keynotes

Keynote

Creating Future Imaginaries through Indigenous AI

Jason Lewis

Keynote

Exiting the Road to Hell

Panthea Lee

Keynote

The Future of Audiences & Mixed Reality Performances

Sarah Ellis

Keynote

We Have always Dreamed of (Afro)futures

Ebony Thomas

Case Studies

Case Study

Anticipating Needs: Trauma-Informed Methodologies

MEREDITH HITCHCOCK & SADHIKA JOHNSON

Case Study

Anticipating the Arrival of a Clean-Sensitive Driving Future

Annicka Campbell-Dollaghan et al.

Case Study

Anticipating the Unanticipated: Ethnography and Crisis Response in the Public Sector

CHRISTINA CHEADLE & HANNAH PATTINSON

Case Study

Building the Future, Together: Bringing Emerging Products to Market

Stefanie Hutka

Case Study

Designing Virtual Primary Care

MARIE MIKA & Arvind Venkataramani

Case Study

Human Skills as Essential Skills: Preparing Job Seekers

EBONY BERTORELLI & MINNAR XIE

Case Study

The Future of Hygiene

SIDDHARTH KANORIA et al.

Papers

Paper

Anticipating Connectivity in (UX) Design Practices

Mette Gislev Kjærsgaard et al.

Paper

Anticipating Headwinds: Using “Narrative Tacking” to Build an Inclusive Future

Kate Sieck

Paper

Building Target Worlds

Markus Rothmüller

Paper

Cities as Anticipatory Systems: Analyzing "Weak Signals"

Nora Morales & Salomon González

Paper

Come to Your Senses: Ethnography of the Everyday Futuring

Jana Jevtic & Rebekah Park

Paper

Empowering Communities: Future-Making through Citizen Ethnography

Sumant Badami & Sophie Goodman

Paper

Futures in Things: Locating the Promise of Infrastructures in Public Libraries

Sandjar Kozubev & Carl Disalvo

Paper

Leveraging Speculative Design to Re-Imagine Product Roadmaps

Sanya Attari et al.

Paper

Reimagining Livelihoods: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Anticipation, Agency, and Reflexivity

Gitika Saksena & Abhishek Mohanty

Paper

Searching for the Next Billion: Global Design for Information Seeking across Cultures

Jennifer Zamora

Paper

Weaving Textile Futures: Indigenous Resistance and Intellectual Property

Amapola Rangel Flores

PechaKucha

PechaKucha

Ethnography as Improvisation

Katherine Metzo

PechaKucha

Anticipating Shared Futures: Emotion, Connection & Relationships

Sarah Heffernan

PechaKucha

Change the Category, Change the World

Jennie Leng

PechaKucha

Hands Are People Too: Reflections on the Value of Hands (and How to Study Them)

Maria Cury & Kahyun Sophie Kim

PechaKucha

Holidays and the Anticipation of Ritual

Rob Murray

PechaKucha

Intuition: Thinking through Loopholes

Laura N. M. Reiss

PechaKucha

Investigating a Gestational Care Facility: An Ethnographic Exploration of Bio-technological Possibilities through a Retro-speculative Lens

Oshin Siao Bhatt

PechaKucha

Microbes That Matter

Carrie Yury

PechaKucha

On Being Well in a Time of Hell

Mira Shah et al.

PechaKucha

Our Advocacy for Their Change

Amanda Rosenberg

PechaKucha

Reconfiguring Home: Seeing Remote Work and School through Mothers and Their Children

Chloe Chang & Vinay Kumar Mysore

PechaKucha

Psychology: The Ballast in Anthropology's Ship

Ben Doepke

PechaKucha

Who Deserves to Be Observed?: Wrestling with the Avant-Garde

Letizia Nardi & Lola Billaud

Tutorials

Tutorial

Tutorial: Business Thinking for Ethnographers

Rebekah Park et al.

Tutorial

Tutorial: Designing Ethnofutures Research Projects

Rod Falcon et al.

Tutorial

Tutorial: Ethnographic Video—Storytelling for Impact

Charley Scull et al.

Tutorial

Tutorial: Ethnography for Project Risk Analysis and Quality Assurance

Patricia Ensworth

Tutorial

Tutorial: Leading with Care—How to Support the Mental Well-being of Your Team

Shannon Lucas & Tracey Lovejoy

Tutorial

Tutorial: Participatory Visual Research—Getting the Most from Collaborative Methods

Krista Harper

Tutorial

Tutorial: Using Analogs to Research the Unknown

Jo Aiken

Panels

Panel

Catching up to the Present to Reimagine the Future

Afra Chen et al.

Panel

Immersive Ethics: Anticipating Risks and Harms in Virtual and Augmented Reality

Jillian Powers et al.

Panel

Redesigning the Social Safety Net

Nadine Levin et al.

Panel

The Future of Business in a Post-COVID Landscape

Marc LaFleur et al.

Sponsored

Sponsored

Eyes on Tomorrow: How Pathfinders Help Facebook See beyond the Horizon to Build Responsible Products

Jay Hasbrouck et al.

Sponsored

Feedback Fatigue: Re-designing the Research Process for Sustainable Insights

Leisa Reichelt et al.

Sponsored

How New is the New? Reflecting on How to Design for Tomorrow through the Case of Autonomous Vehicles

Melissa Cefkin et al.

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