Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran

  We need your support. Show some love by becoming a Premium Member. It seems that any Zoom call we are having now - be it business related or with friends and family - we have to navigate a beginning of this call about how we're all experiencing lockdown with COVID-19. What is becoming clear is that many of us are all having the same everyday cultural experiences, which in turn makes it more difficult to share our stories about our lives - homeschooling, baking, exercise, hair getting long, toilet paper. Stories are central to cultural capital, but when they are so obvious and similar, this signifies an era that our lives have been impacted on greatly. We are living in a dystopian reality where those everyday norms that we have taken for granted for decades and centuries are overnight classified as social stigma, pollutions of what is morally right. Sitting on a park bench talking to friends face to face, playing basketball, going to a funeral - our physical bodies have become objects of morality.    In this episode, I unpack many of these contradictions of social norms with fellow anthropologist, Olive Minor. Olive lives in Seattle, and previously worked for Oxfam in West Africa, where she used her anthropological expertise amongst many things to understand how culture shaped attitudes to Ebola. She describes the work she did there and then we use some of her experiences to understand the current cultural landscape related to COVID-19. Let's get into the conversation. Welcome to the Decoding Culture podcast.   This is HCD Podcast Network EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion ProdPod with Adrienne Tan Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion Power of Ten with Andy Polaine NEW: The Big Remote with Gerry Scullion and Andy Polaine NEW: Moments of Change with Melanie Rayment Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran NEW: World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern NEW: Global Jams Podcast with Adam Lawrence and Markus Hormess Connect with This is HCD Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter (we have lots of design giveaways!) Join the practitioner community on This is HCD Slack Channel Read articles on our This is HCD Network on Medium Support the show.

Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Hi and welcome to the Decoding Culture podcast on This is HCD. My name is John Curran and I'm your host. I'm a business anthropologist, executive coach and CEO of JC Associates, which is a consultancy that explores how culture shapes organizations and consumer behaviour. Now, I'm recording this introduction to episode 5 on the 30th of March 2020, at a time where London is in lockdown due to COVID-19. Every day feels like we're living in and through a dystopian film. Humanity has no normality while we're frantically trying to redefine cultural norms and rituals. The role of the social sciences is now key, because it is through this interpretive lens that anthropologists and sociologists are able to deconstruct the everyday, also challenge perceptions of normality and facilitate new ways of seeing.  Links in this episode Daniel's Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Taking-Floor-Models-Management-Trading-ebook/dp/B07PXXMNFX http://www.systemicrisk.ac.uk/events/taking-floor-models-morals-and-management-wall-street-trading-room Join our live online Coffee Timeevents every Tuesday and Thursday during the pandemic with a surprise guest each time :-) This is HCD Podcast Network EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion ProdPod with Adrienne Tan Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion Power of Ten with Andy Polaine NEW: The Big Remote with Gerry Scullion and Andy Polaine Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran NEW: World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern NEW: Global Jams Podcast with Adam Lawrence and Markus Hormess Connect with This is HCD Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter (we have lots of design giveaways!) Join the practitioner community on This is HCD Slack Channel Read articles on our This is HCD Network on Medium   Support the show.

Tickets are on sale now for our first design conference in Dublin on June 16 and 17th 2020. Buy Conference & workshop tickets  Hi, and welcome to episode 4 of the Decoding Culture podcast on This Is HCD. The podcast focuses on the importance that culture plays in all areas of business and society, from how it shapes organizations and teams to how it influences consumer experience design and larger societal trends. How to Be a Better Leader: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Be-Better-Leader-Academy/dp/1509821260 Myths of Management: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Myths-Management-People-Wrong-Business/dp/0749480238/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_0/257-8122882-7699522?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0749480238&pd_rd_r=617f91d2-d7e6-46f0-a1aa-4fc3428a809f&pd_rd_w=utNAg&pd_rd_wg=aQUsV&pf_rd_p=e44592b5-e56d-44c2-a4f9-dbdc09b29395&pf_rd_r=2PRJ8JPEPQ9Z799SE82Z&psc=1&refRID=2PRJ8JPEPQ9Z799SE82Z This is HCD Links https://linktr.ee/thisishcd Other podcasts on This is HCD Network Power of Ten with Andy Polaine EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion ProdPod with Adrienne Tan Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran Support the show.

This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design and The Academy.ie - Design Training and Education Have feedback on this episode? Click here to leave us a voice mail. Hi, and welcome to the Decoding Culture Podcast on This is HCD. The podcast focuses on the importance that culture plays in all areas of business and society, form how it shapes organisations to how it influences consumer experience, design, and larger societal trends. My name is John Curran and I’m your host. I’m a business anthropologist, executive coach, and CEO of JC and Associates, which is a consultancy that explores how culture shaped organisations and consumer behaviour. For this episode, I want to start with a question, why are companies and brands turning to business anthropology to understand their consumers and organisations? To answer this and to discuss the value of business anthropology in general, I spoke with Bob Morais, a business anthropologist and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School in New York.  Business Anthropology: https://www.businessanthro.com/ Robert J. Morais https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-j-morais-5a60696/ We are hosting our first conference in Dublin - June 2020. Stay up to date by joining our newsletter Learn more: https://www.thisishcd.com/conference/this-is-hcd-conference-dublin-ireland-june-16-17-2020/ Connect with This is HCD Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter (we have lots of design giveaways!) Join the practitioner community on This is HCD Slack Channel Read articles on our This is HCD Network on Medium Other podcasts on This is HCD Network Power of Ten with Andy Polaine EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion ProdPod with Adrienne Tan Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran Support the show.

This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design and The Academy.ie - Design Training and Education Have feedback on this episode? Click here to leave us a voice mail. Hello, and welcome to Decoding Culture Podcast on This is HCD. This is the first episode of Decoding Culture. I thought I’d give the listeners a short summary of what it’s all about. The podcast will focus on the importance that culture plays in all areas of business and society, from how it shapes organisations to how it influences consumer experience, design, and larger societal trends. For this first episode, I spoke to Dr. Laetitia Mimoun, who’s a lecture on marketing at Cass Business School in London. We explored how her research interest was influenced by anthropological theory, especially around liminality and how this shapes area of consumer behaviour and culture. This is something she calls consumer liminality and she’s going to talk about this more in the podcast. https://www.cass.city.ac.uk/faculties-and-research/experts/laetitia-mimoun   We are hosting our first conference in Dublin - March 30, March 31 2020. Stay up to date by joining our newsletter https://mailchi.mp/thisishcd/2020-dublin-hcd-conference Connect with This is HCD Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter (we have lots of design giveaways!) Join the practitioner community on This is HCD Slack Channel Read articles on our This is HCD Network on Medium Other podcasts on This is HCD Network Power of Ten with Andy Polaine EthnoPod with Jay Hasbrouck Bringing Design Closer with Gerry Scullion ProdPod with Adrienne Tan Getting Started in Design with Gerry Scullion Talking Shop with Andy Polaine and Gerry Scullion Decoding Culture with Dr. John Curran Support the show.

In this episode, I caught up with Dr. John Curran, a London-based anthropologist. Now, we met in Service Design Days in Barcelona where John was giving a keynote on conflict, and how important it is to deal with this conflict, not only in the design process but also the broader impact to the business itself. Links from episode Johns Service Design Days keynote John on Twitter Johns website This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design Follow This is HCD us on Twitter Follow This is HCD on Instagram Sign up for our newsletter Join the This is HCD Slack Channel Follow us on Medium   Support the show.