practice
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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
The Pulp/ACME Ecology
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Cicero
We work in an interesting field, a decidedly fertile one. A field where social scientists, designers, business people, and ‘liberal arts majors helping mankind’ (as my sister’s business card used to say) come together to understand the experience of the mundane as well as that of the esoteric. A field where understanding the underlying structures and sources of these experiences is as important as attempting to imagine where they’ll go in the future. It is compelling and provocative on its own merits, but moreso when we give over the work we do
Introducing pulp: notes from rer
pulp: a writer’s salon at the intersection of design, social science, and business.
In graduate school I was part of a ‘workshop’ that had been started by one of my advisors (Wendy Griswold, now at Northwestern University) on the ‘Sociology of Culture.’ There wasn’t a curriculum. Wendy didn’t lecture. There were no grades. It went across academic quarters, year over year (I was part of it for four of them), with an evolving composition of graduate students and faculty members from across the university.
We presented work in progress. We shared drafts of papers and chapters. We critiqued what we read and we argued (productively) about what we were working
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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