Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: epistemology

If These Walls Could Talk: The Mental Life of the Built Environment

If These Walls Could Talk: The Mental Life of the Built Environment

Renewing Henri Lefebvre’s unfinished and overlooked science of ‘rhythmanalysis,’ I propose physical space becomes meaningful to us to the extent that it provides refuge from the ravages of time—specifically, the intersecting rhythms of everyday life. In other words, we develop affinity with space...

Consumer Fetish

Consumer Fetish

Commercial ethnography has become an important activity for accessing the lived experiences of consumers that are constructed as “others” that firms have to discover and manage. In organizational contexts where the necessity to accumulate organizational knowledge about markets have become...

Design Rituals and Performative Ethnography

Design Rituals and Performative Ethnography

[contrib_author post_id='596' name='JOACHIM HALSE'] and [contrib_author post_id='596' name='BRENDON CLARK'] [s2If is_user_logged_in()]Download PDF[/s2If] This paper proposes a course for ethnography in design that problematizes the implied authenticity of “people out there,” and rather favors a...