Ethnography has grown, like many other industries, in tandem with a fossil fuel economy. As evidence of weather, resource and species disruption surround us on a daily basis, the climate sessions provided guideposts and practical resources to adjust and thrive as informed, climate-conscious...
Tag: environment
How We Empower Travelers to Make More Sustainable Choices
https://player.vimeo.com/video/897313455?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 The Booking.com research team is constantly partnering with its sustainability teams to research needs, expectations, fears and blockers. In this session, learn actionable tips in researching the...
Friction in Sustainability Transitions: Lessons from Organizations and Institutions
Klaus Weber currently serves faculty director for Sustainability and Social Impact at Kellogg. He is also...
Silence: Divergent Listening in the Anthropocene
Divergent listening describes a listening practice which seeks to raise consciousness or expand on our understanding of reality through the perception of sound. The multichannel sound installation, ‘Silence’, offers a space of quiet reflection, a place to ask questions, share, or rest. It is a...
The Climate Crisis as Learning Space
It is becoming widely accepted that the climate crisis is a multiscale breakdown of interrelated ecological systems, caused by behavioural patterns that are unsustainable. As behaviours are largely informed by ideologies and as the latter are passed on by education, we submit that the climate...
Creating Companies and Products Conducive to Life
Melissa Gregg is a senior principal engineer in user experience driving carbon reduction and green software strategy at Intel. With a Ph.D. in gender and cultural studies, she is a widely cited author, theorist,...
Microbes That Matter
PechaKucha Presentation—While COVID-19 has made the world hyper vigilant about sanitization, I take a bottoms-up perspective on the threats of a microbe-starved world. Telling the story of Clostridium Difficile, I walk us through how—just as in ethnography—context is everything for microbes. Using...
Human Action and the Dynamic Environment
An EPIC2020 Sponsored Panel presented by Google What does human scale mean through the lens of the environment? Alternatively, what does the scale of the Earth’s environment mean to human activity and life? We may start by thinking of the enormity of the problem to just describe these two...
Tutorial: Integrating Sustainability Perspectives in Ethnographic Work
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Post-Human Centered
We invented our world at human height, with us in the middle. Much of our work is designed even more narrowly, with a particular kind of human at the middle. What happens when we go beyond the limited “user-centric” or “human-centric” scales? What does it look like, feel like, move like when...