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Applications now open: MSc Design Ethnography 2012/13
Start your journey here! Applications are now open for the MSc Design Ethnography 2012/13 academic year starting this September, at the University of Dundee, UK. The MSc Design Ethnography course provides students from a…
Featured Stories
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Finding your element
I am currently working my way through the book ‘The Element’ by Sir Ken Robinson, his underlying principle throughout is that if we can unite our natural inclinations with our passions…
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Presenting Design Ethnography Project Outcomes
Presenting DE project outcomes is a tricky business. You want to bring your participants to life yet at the same time convey that while this person may have their quirks,…
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Challenges: Gaining First-hand information in Second Language
As a bilingual or multilingual speaker, have you ever conducted an interview in another language other than your primary one? When conducting an interview in another language, it is more…
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An Apparent Acceptance of Discomfort OR The Foreign Voyager
This Christmas break my husband and I went to Germany. All my family and friends live in Germany, and since I emigrated from Germany to the US in 2003, I…
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Learning by Design
A few weeks ago I attended an event that focused on service design, and offered an opportunity for a small group of people to share experiences and thoughts on this…
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Challenges in documenting ethnographic research for design ethnographers
As part of a team I contributed towards two ethnographic research projects, ‘exploring the work patterns of mobile workers’ and ‘how multi-person households do grocery shopping’. The challenges I…
From Our Studio
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Insights as artfully told facts
Posted on January 25, 2012 | 6 CommentsThe other night we had dinner and drinks with some good friends and soon the discussion turned to science and how the general assumption in our society is that if... -
Ask Us Anything
Posted on September 27, 2011 | 8 CommentsWhat is it? A chance to learn, to get advice from students and alumni, and to find out more about Design Ethnography. How: Post a comment with a... -
Different fields, key texts.
Posted on August 12, 2011 | No CommentsWhat is your key text? More than ever before we are asked to dip in and out of varying fields of knowledge, but when you first hit the ground running... -
On Their Bikes! The Hothouse Summer 2011 Launched
Posted on May 9, 2011 | No CommentsIf you bump into a Dundee design ethnography student roaming around in Germany or the USA, India, China or London this summer, say hello! Semester three of the Masters... -
Human Computer Interactions: Creating Space for Recovery through Skype
Posted on April 20, 2011 | No CommentsSeth Godin, a prominent entrepreneur and author who was named the “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by Business Week, said it best in his post on empathy, addressing the catch-22 ... -
@dethnoreads – book group chatter in 140 characters (or less)…
Posted on April 20, 2011 | 1 CommentOne of the things I struggle against in our wonderful, infuriating, info-rich world (I’m old enough to remember the time before!) is that it just gets harder and harder to...