Cultural Transitions – WWMD? Ethical Impulses and the Project of Ethnography in Industry
We are at an early moment in the formation of an ethnographic project in and of the corporate world. I suggest that the work of ethnography in industry would benefit...
The EPIC 2012 Conversation
When we offer something to another person, community, or organization, we create the conditions for some sort of value to be created. This proposition about value...
Practice at the Crossroads: When Practice Meets Theory, A Rumination
Consumer practices, work practices, not to mention management, design and research practices. The notion of “practice” remains core to much of what ethnographers...
Numbers May Speak Louder than Words, but Is Anyone Listening? The Rhythmscape and Sales Pipeline Management
In this paper I explore the often fleeting, seemingly constrained acts of expression performed through participation in everyday, routinized actions and practices....
The EPIC 2011 Conversation
EPIC seems to be a group of people who share a way of thinking. And I wanted to be a part of that. —Raph D’Amico,student at IIT Institute of Design EPIC was...
The EPIC 2013 Conversation
Oracles, fear, wonderment and magic graced the Faraday Theater of the Royal Institution of Great Britain once again. They appeared, appropriately, intertwined with...