ethnographic
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Lurking | Learning
This has emerged as the main question folks have about the idea behind pulp: “Why would I put anything I write up where all those lurkers can see it too?”
I don’t have a pat answer. I think that thinking about thinking in an open-source sort of way does entail some risk of a form of idea piracy. That’s not without basis, given the fact that a great deal of work in the design/research intersection has been ‘citation-free,’ largely, I think, due the perception among all kinds of practitioners that they need to be able to claim uniqueness in order to offer value, and that uniqueness
The ‘Style’ paper from EPIC ‘09
“Let’s bring it up to b flat” — What Style Offers Applied Ethnographic Work
Cantare amantis est “Only he who loves can sing” St. Augustine
WORKING WITH STYLE
How hard is it to convey the essence of the work we do? I’m talking here about particular instances of work, work in projects, in cases, in fieldwork and findings, more than the more generic process, method, and overview blurbs and slideshows that get used to ‘sell’ or introduce the work. It’s hard. We rely, often, on close collaborations and shared experiences to bridge across organizational boundaries and disciplinary backgrounds. We don’t expect folks to
On practices
“The most rudimentary behavior must be determined both in relation to the real and present factors which condition it and in relation to a certain object, still to come, which it is trying to bring into being. This is what we call the project.”
Sartre, Search for a method, 1963
Introduction
I know that it is customary in talks of this nature to present some current, preferably path-breaking work. And we are doing one thing that is pretty cool, but at the moment its path is muddy, incompletely cleared, and god only knows where it is going.
But that weird place where you’ve got equal measures of “there is some
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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