Melissa Cefkin
Melissa has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and her moon sign and five planets in Capricorn. Ergo, Melissa Cefkin is left trying to balance her commitment to relativism as a mode of inquiry and its appeal to emergent and situated realities with her pleasure at putting things in boxes and making order out of them. She knows French, Turkish and Persian and a thing or two about doing applied ethnographic research in government and industry settings.
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Practice makes… practice?
A question, what is new with practice? I don’t mean “our” practice (whoever the ‘we’ of that is), but I mean the notion of practice as a conceptual, theoretical or methodological object.
It seems to me that “practice” is a predominant notion upon which much ethnographic and human-centered design work in industry sits. Theories of practice have provided ethnographers in industry a theoretically nuanced yet empirically resonant object of analysis by which to frame and ground their work. I think it grounds the work of human-centered designers too. Even when practitioners themselves may not draw explicitly (or knowingly) on this trajectory, the general framing of the applied ethnographic research, design and
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Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations (Studies in
Melissa Cefkin, Editor
The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Rick E. Robinson
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