Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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Shared Ethnography of Shared Cities

Shared Ethnography of Shared Cities

This paper aims to foreground issues for design ethnographers working in urban contexts within the smart-city discourse. It highlights ethnography's role in a shared urban future by exploring how ethnographers might pave the way for envisioning digital infrastructure at the core of Smart City...

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...