I harness my experience as a tattoo artist to affirm the power of bodies and sensation in ethnography. The talk...
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Equity-Centered Leadership
Equity-Centered Leadership focuses on ensuring that all employees can succeed in a workplace, regardless of their...
Friction and Innovation in Chicago Neighborhoods
https://vimeo.com/803229626 "Friction can be either good, bad, or something in between. But it will always be the start of change." The South Side of Chicago—site of EPIC2023 and the neighborhood where Tayler Ulmer grew up—was birthed from friction. In this Lightning Talk, Tayler explores how...
A Personal Research Project that Turned into My Life’s Work
My journey to becoming a social impact founder that started with a simple research question: "Why didn't we see...
Friction as Sneaky Power
Friction frequently presents as a mere by-product of daily life, the innocent outcome of inefficiency or...
In Search of Cultural Entropy: A Call for New Frameworks of Analysis
In this PechaKucha, I explore the tension between an increasingly interconnected global culture and our premise...
A Tale of Two Frictions: Building Ethical Software Solutions by Challenging Tech’s Obsession with Efficiency
The enterprise technology ethos of efficiency biases corporate software development towards seamlessness. What...
Using Friction to Focus: Perspectives from Three Brands
https://player.vimeo.com/video/899632832?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 Whether it’s budgets, bandwidth, or business outcomes, human-centered practitioners are facing a lot right now. In this session, three senior pros to discuss how friction is impacting them from above...
Frictions and the Politics of Ethnography
https://vimeo.com/803204349 Our collaborations extend well beyond our teams, stakeholders, and research participants to complex global systems defined by friction. In this lightning talk, Scott Matter inspires us to stretch the boundaries of ethnography by embracing concepts of friction. Scott...
Anthro x Journo: The Value of Ethnography for Solving Journalism’s Challenges
Today’s working journalists are experiencing friction in stereo: both readers and sources don’t trust them to get...