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The Ethnographic Tarot Project intertwines the magic and mystery of tarot with the depth of anthropological inquiry. This initiative seeks to develop a distinctive tarot deck infused with ethnographic and anthropological themes, serving not only as a medium for reflection and divination but also as an innovative teaching tool aimed at enlightening students about the intricacies of ethnographic research. The aim is to collaboratively design a tarot deck that transcends traditional usage, becoming an educational resource that prompts students to explore and understand ethnographic research methodologies and anthropological insights. Each card will be thoughtfully re-imagined to incorporate significant anthropological themes, inviting contemplation on diversity, interconnectedness, frictions, and the politics and ethics of ethnographic practice. The Ethnographic Tarot Project is led by Priyanka Borpujari, Dr Fiona Murphy, and Dr Ana Ivasiuc. We are pleased to welcome the team behind The Ethnographic Tarot Project: The Arcana of Inquiry who will discuss the project's intentions, its origins, and its future direction. They will explore how tarot complements the ethnographic practice and its potential to serve as a versatile educational resource for research, supervision, and writing. More broadly, they examine how this empowering practice can shift perspectives, unlock creative potential, and deepen reflection for practitioners. Finally, they will share their thoughts on what is needed to foster more radical imagination within the neoliberal academic space. Listen to the episode to hear more about it. We have set one of the project's tarot cards as a visual for this podcast episode. The Ethnographic Tower card within the tarot deck serves as a powerful metaphor for the tumultuous yet transformative process inherent in anthropological work. This card encapsulates the themes of upheaval, deconstruction, and the necessity for renewal, making it an exceptional teaching tool for understanding the dynamics of ethnographic inquiry. Copyright (for the artwork): Priyanka Borpujari. Links: https://www.scribd.com/document/760415134/Ethnographic-Tarot-Project (contribution deadline extended to September 20th 2024)
Dace Dzenovskais Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford and the Principal Investigator of the EMPTINESS project. She holds doctoral and master's degrees in Social Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an interdisciplinary master's degree in Humanities and Social Thought from New York University. We are happy to have Dace with us speaking to her background and her experience and thoughts on isolation. She shares about her current research on emptiness and links it to isolation. Through fieldwork stories, she further details the condition of emptiness of which isolation is an element and explores what happens when this condition is seen as a site of opportunities. Lastly, she talks about what excites her the most about coming to the conference as well as her advice to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.
Heli Rantavuo is an applied cultural studies and social sciences researcher based in Helsinki. For the past 15 years, she has worked in the technology industry in London, Stockholm and Helsinki, contributing and leading research in product and market strategy at Spotify, eBay, Microsoft and Nokia. Before working in the industry, she was a researcher at Aalto University, School of Media and Art where she graduated as Doctor of Arts, and at the Center of Welfare and Health in Finland. Heli is a founding member of the Human Sciences in Strategy association in Finland which brings together applied anthropologists and other human scientists who practise their craft outside academia.We are happy to have Heli with us speaking to her background and her experience and thoughts on isolation. She shares some of the lenses she is considering to use to explore the topic of isolation, such as temporality, embodiment and capitalism. Lastly, she talks about what excites her the most about coming to the conference as well as her advice to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.
We are happy to have Rafram with us speaking to his background as a visual artist and his experience and thoughts on isolation. In 2010, Rafram found himself imprisonedin Lybia. He spent 6 months by himself in an extreme isolation unit, not knowing whether he would live or die. In this conversation he explores questions such as: What does it mean to be free? What is the value of being with oneself? What do inner conversations reveal and what effects can one experience after such a transformative event? Rafram also speaks to the power of the artistic lens and how it can help cultivate self-inquiry and drive everyday choices from a space of personal freedom. Lastly, as a speaker of Why the world needs Anthropologists, The Power of Isolation, heshares his thoughts on anthropology as well as his advice and thoughts to those considering attending the conference. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.
Erin B. Taylor & Melanie T. Uy: Anthropologists & Authors of Better Research, Better Design: How to Align Teams and Build a Human-Centric Company Culture. Dr. Erin B. Taylor has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Sydney and is the founder of Finthropology, a company specializing in insights into people's financial behaviour. She specializes in how people's financial behaviour is changing along with innovation in financial services, and has carried out ethnographic research in the Caribbean, Africa and Europe. Erin is especially interested in how culture and group belonging influence people's actions and decisions.Dr. Melanie T. Uy is a lifelong learner and known for unexpected questions. She is a ritual specialist focusing on the practices of social connection and disconnection and its impact on work and workplaces. Her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam researched how social detachment was essential to the work of migration brokers in China. She currently works as a user experience researcher in the Netherlands and previously ran consumer studies for the retail and healthcare market in the Philippines.We are excited to have Erin and Melanie with us to share this joint research project. This project is intended as a toolkit for researchers and their colleagues to help them position the value of their work and bring it forth to a desired organizational level. We ask the authors how did the idea for the project come about? How did they organize the research and what were the unexpected insights that emerged from it? Melanie and Erin ask back whether they were right or wrong with their conclusions. Listen to the episode and feel free to reach out to the authors to share your feedback. Mentioned in Podcast:Better Research,Better Design: How to Align Teams and Build a Human-Centric Company Culture by Erin B. Taylor and Melany.T.Uy Active8 PlanetAmerican Anthropological Association (AAA)AppliedAnthropology Network (AAN)EPIC 2022FinthropologyGillianTettMoving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas, University of AmsterdamResponse-ability SummitThe National Association for the Practice of AnthropologyUXInsight Social Media:Erin: LinkedInMelanie: LinkedIn;...
Amina Alaoui Soulimani is a doctoral research fellow at HUMA, the Institute for Humanities in Africa. Amina holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics. Her current anthropological doctoral work at the University of Cape Town focuses on the ethics of care, AI, and the future hospital in Morocco.Gabriela Cabaña is a Ph.D. candidate at the LSE anthropology department. Gabriela is a transdisciplinary scholar originally trained in Sociology in Chile but also draws from political ecology and feminist theoretical perspectives. She is interested in the interplay between energy, bureaucracy, value, and degrowth. Her ethnographic work focuses on energy transitions in southern Chile. Gabriela is part of Centro de Análisis Socioambiental (Centre of Social-Environmental Analysis); Red Chilena de Ingreso Básico (Chilean network of Basic Income) and the Basic Income Earth Network. This is a special episode, a Love letter to David Graeber. Gabriela was taught a course by David at LSE, while Amina got to know him as a thesis supervisor there. Through the lived experiences of Amina and Gabriela, we are exploring David's contribution andlegacy in action. What has stuck with them from the conversations they had with David and the academic interactions he created? Gabriela and Amina share beautiful examples from their individual encounters with David as an academic lead and a fellow human. Finally, we ask how to make someone like David possible in academia again and more?At the end, they share their favourite readings. Listen to this conversation about a personal anthropological touch and the inheritance of David Graeber. Social Media:Amina: https://twitter.com/AminaSoulimaniGabriela: https://twitter.com/gabi_cabana Mentioned in PodcastFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David GraeberThe Utopia of Rules by DavidGraeber
David Prendergast is Head of the Department of Anthropology and Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Maynooth University in Ireland. Previously David worked at Intel where he was a principal investigator at the ‘Technology Research for Independent Living Centre' and co-founder of the ‘Intel Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities'. He has also served as Visiting Professor of Healthcare Innovation at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Trinity College Dublin. He is currently working on a book with colleagues Jamie Saris and Katja Seidel about the lives of 94 older adults in ten locations across Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic. We are happy to have David with us speaking to his background and current work at the intersection of academia and the applied sector. He shares his path into anthropology and his multiple research projects as well as gives insight into what motivated his choices to leave spaces of engagement or to take on new opportunities. As speaker at the Why the world needs Anthropologists conference he shares how he will be contributing to the themes as well as his advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it. Mentioned: Why the World needs Anthropologists, Re|Generation, September 2022 https://www.applied-anthropology.com/session/regeneration-talk-iv-2/ (https://www.applied-anthropology.com/session/regeneration-talk-iv-2/) Social Media: LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidprendergast/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidprendergast/)
Katia Dumont: Anthropologist, regional network organiser for SE Europe, BMW foundation & speaker at the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Re|Generation 23-25 Sept 2022 Berlin Katia Dumont is a Regional Network Organizer for Southwestern Europe for the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a consultant for foundations and social enterprises in venture philanthropy. She spent various years setting up and building the regional chapter for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs – ANDE of Development Entrepreneurs based out of Mexico City, where she enabled research, facilitated collaboration between a community of stakeholders for the small and growing business sector, and provided a base for knowledge management and practical applications. Katia also is part of the Board of Directors of Value For Women Ltd., a social enterprise on a mission to promote women's economic participation, leadership, and entrepreneurship by bringing a gender lens to business practices. Her interest in (eco)systems sparked her passion to create a regenerative future by engaging in agriculture and the broader human/nature system that supports it. We are happy to have Katia with us speaking to her background and current work in community development. She speaks to her intent of contributing to the creation of safer and braver community spaces where relationships are anchored in trust instead of transactions. We also explore together several topics such as: how to balance engaging in community action with the observer role? How to create space for flourishing futures for all? As speaker at the Why the world needs Anthropologists conference, she shares how she will be contributing to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it. Mentioned: Why the World needs Anthropologists, Re|Generation, September 2022: https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/katia-dumont/ (https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/katia-dumont/) Stuff, Daniel Miller https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stuff-Daniel-Miller/dp/0745644244 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stuff-Daniel-Miller/dp/0745644244) How Forests Think, Eduardo Kohn https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520276116/how-forests-think (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520276116/how-forests-think) Social Media: LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/katia-dumont-a724b818/?originalSubdomain=es (https://www.linkedin.com/in/katia-dumont-a724b818/?originalSubdomain=es)
Sophie Strand: writer and academic cross-contaminator: on the ways we can improvise in academia and beyond. Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming in 2022 from Inner Traditions. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions. Her books of poetry include Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press) and Those Other Flowers to Come (Dancing Girl Press) and The Approach (The Swan). Her poems and essays have been published by Art PAPERS, The Dark Mountain Project, Poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way, Creatrix, Your Impossible Voice, The Doris, Persephone's Daughters, and Entropy. She has recently finished a work of historical fiction, The Madonna Secret, that offers an eco-feminist revision of the gospels. She is currently researching her next epic, a mythopoetic exploration of ecology and queerness in the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde. Today we speak about the importance of listening to one's body and its unexpected ways to bring out intellectual results and eventually new academic fruits. For Sophie, storytelling was a way out of trauma and around pain and then became her academic method allowing to border-cross paradigms and fuse ideas. We ask how to create safety in these subversive spaces? And how to confront the reactions of disapproval and discontent? Sophie leads us through her story of following that sensory vein and shares the ways that could work for others as eager to improvise. Listen to the episode to reflect on our intellectual editing processes together. (TW: this conversation touches on trauma and mental health). Mentioned in Podcast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Rice (Anne Rice) https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/about (Bayo Akomolafe) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_and_Danger (Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo) by Mary Douglas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Weber_(writer) (Andreas Weber) https://orphanwisdom.com/die-wise/ (Die Wise – A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul) by Stephen Jenkinson Social media: https://sophiestrand.com/ (Sophie) https://sophiestrand.com/ (Strand)
Rebecca Price is a researcher and assistant professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology where she investigates how design can advance sectors and industries through multi-leveled and networked innovation. Educated and practiced as an industrial designer, Rebecca was quickly drawn to the strategic potential of design as a source of resilience, and so pursued a Ph.D. in design-led innovation at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Her work increasingly explores the intersection between the design of socio-technical systems and transitions theory to consider new methodological opportunities. Rebecca works with public and private organisations to support the application of design upon complex innovation challenges. While the predominant domain of her work to date has been mobility (aviation, automotive, urban transport), her methodological research, in particular, holds increasing value to domains related to public health and energy transitions that stem from a socio-technical perspective of the possibilities of design. In today's episode, Rebecca speaks to her passions and drives as a designer, innovative thinker, and teacher. We are curious to hear her thoughts on friction and ways to approach it, on challenges that multidisciplinary settings may bring, and means that allow her to keep up to her expectations. How has her sports background contributed to her resilience? In the second part of our talk, Rebecca shares what inspired her to carry out the project “100 Days” – Graduating during Covid19“. Hear her speak on ways to facilitate students in challenging times, on mutual awareness, ways of being a mentor of value, and the reasons she finds teaching so important. Social Media: Rebecca's https://nl.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-price-8732477b (LinkedIn)
Pavel Cenkl is currently the Head of Schumacher College and Director of Learning at Dartington Trust, Devon, England and previously he held the position of Professor of Environmental Humanities and Associate Dean at Sterling College, Vermont. Pavel holds a Ph.D. in English and is the author of many articles, chapters, and two books. He has always been drawn to colleges and universities whose curriculum fully integrates learning with practice and thinking with embodiment. While pursuing research in ecologically-minded curriculum design and teaching courses in environmental philosophy, Pavel is also a passionate endurance and adventure runner. Over the past five years through a project called Climate Run, Pavel has covered hundreds of miles in the Arctic and subarctic on foot in order to bring attention to the connections between our bodies and the more-than-human world in the face of a rapidly changing climate. In this podcast episode, Pavel shares his work at Schumacher College but also other personal discoveries and aspirations. Together, we explore educational practices that blend theoretical pursuits with immersive community action and the human with the more than human. Can we use ecology as a blueprint for learning models? How to define a scientific method within the framework of regenerative learning? How to take the individual embodied practice and make it resonate with a broader audience? Join us in this conversation. Mentioned in Podcast: https://campus.dartington.org/schumacher-college/ (Schumacher College) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Morton (Timothy Morton) https://liberationworks.co.uk/into-the-cracks (Into the cracks), by Bayo Akomolafe Social media: Pavel's https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavelcenkl/?originalSubdomain=uk (LinkedIn) Pavel's Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/climate_run/ (https://www.instagram.com/climate_run/)) Pavel's website: http://www.climaterun.org (http://www.climaterun.org)
Vito Laterza is an anthropologist, development scholar and political analyst. He holds a MPhil in Social Anthropological Research and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Vito is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning, University of Agder, Norway, where he also leads the Digitalization and Sustainability focus area at the university's Centre for Digital Transformation (CeDiT). His interdisciplinary orientation spans two main areas: political economy & ecology; and digitalisation, new media and communication. His approach is characterised by a systemic integration of ethnography, macro-level structural analysis, and epistemological & reflexive inquiry, in the tradition of “big ideas” social science and social theory. He writes regularly for national and international media, such as Al Jazeera English, Boston Review, Foreign Affairs, Africa Is A Country, and Daily Maverick. Today's conversation engages us in many big questions that are also characteristic of Vito's approach to work and life. How do we interact with our physical and virtual environments and how do we communicate with algorithms? How can we have green transitions that work socially and politically for people across the world? How can we safeguard analogue life in the midst of accelerating digitalization, and what is the role nation states should play in ensuring a healthy equilibrium between analogue and digital forms of humanity and sociality? How does Vito feel about the digital “metaverse” and what kind of power and economic relations are at play in this project? Vito talks about the public engagement blog Corona Times and the grounded approach to the Covid-19 pandemic social scientists were able to offer in their blog posts. He speaks about individual freedom, self-restraint and care for others in the context of Covid-19 and shares insights going forward. Vito offers not only answers, but also more questions we should ask ourselves. Join us in this rich conversation. Mentioned in Podcast: Public engagement blog https://www.coronatimes.net/ (Corona Times) Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Vito Laterza, http://www.rivisteclueb.it/riviste/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/download/381/615 («Human-technology relations in an age of surveillance capitalism:) http://www.rivisteclueb.it/riviste/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/download/381/615 (Towards an anthropological theory of the dialectic between analogue and digital) http://www.rivisteclueb.it/riviste/index.php/etnoantropologia/article/download/381/615 (humanity») https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal (Facebook-Cambridge) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal (Analytical Data Scandal) HUMA - http://www.huma.uct.ac.za/ (Institute for Humanities in Africa)https://gorillahq-my.sharepoint.com/personal/selina_spain_gorilla-voice_com/Documents/Downloads/pic%20and%20profile/pic%20and%20profile/Profile%20Vito%20VLedits%20v2.docx#_msocom_1 ([VL1]) , University of Cape Town Social Media: Vito's https://www.linkedin.com/in/vito-laterza-b8086934/?originalSubdomain=no (LinkedIn) Vito's https://vitolaterza.academia.edu/research (academic publications)https://gorillahq-my.sharepoint.com/personal/selina_spain_gorilla-voice_com/Documents/Downloads/pic%20and%20profile/pic%20and%20profile/Profile%20Vito%20VLedits%20v2.docx#_msocom_2 ([VL2]) https://gorillahq-my.sharepoint.com/personal/selina_spain_gorilla-voice_com/Documents/Downloads/pic%20and%20profile/pic%20and%20profile/Profile%20Vito%20VLedits%20v2.docx#_msoanchor_1 ([VL1])This is the full name of the centre, HUMA comes first, as it is the main brand.
Désirée Driesenaar is an innovation activist, blue economy specialist, storyteller as well as external expert for the European Commission. After years of working in the corporate world as a commercial manager and B2B marketer, in 2014 Desirée went for a holistic shift and became an entrepreneur for a regenerative future. In search of purpose and sustainability, she developed a worldview of systems thinking in a quest of restoring ecosystems by building bridges between technology and nature by applying different business models and innovations. Desirée's methods include action, storytelling, systemic narratives, and co-creation with a particular focus on the idea of regeneration – a driving factor in establishing truly sustainable and connected solutions. We are pleased to have Desirée talking to us today about concepts that are key in both her professional and personal life such as regeneration and sustainable ecosystems weaved in and through the world of technology. How can one work with technology and AI while staying in close mental and emotional affinity with all that is nature? What are the methods, principles, and approaches that Desirée has been exploring in her collaborations which help set up bridges between these two worlds? We are curious to hear how would a technology in tune with nature would look like in Desiree's imagination. Join us on this episode to reflect on the inspiring possibilities that nature-based solutions can bring.
Kathleen leads Research & Insights at Dreams, a Fintech company built on behavioral science that boosts financial wellbeing. She is a Dutch national currently based in Stockholm and has worked with UX research for over a decade. Her main interests are innovation and technology with social impact, always trying to connect the dots between people off- and online. Besides working at Dreams she also hosts user research training and coaching. While teaching, mentoring & breathing research she does not try to learn about users and their behavior, but mostly makes sure that the product teams themselves gain this knowledge first hand. We are pleased to be having Kathleen with us today talking about her passion, UX research, and the ways to teach and empower teams to do it themselves. Kathleen questions the skills that a UX researcher is often expected to have and shares her insights into what she believes makes a good researcher. We explore together some of the practices she engages in in order to democratize research. Kathleen gives examples of projects where she led teams through a learning path with research and shares some lessons learned. Listen to the episode to hear all about it. Mentioned in Podcast: Art of hosting, https://www.artofhosting.org/ (https://www.artofhosting.org/) U-lab, https://u-lab.nl/nl (https://u-lab.nl/nl) Insight Bonanza https://uxinsight.org/when-research-democratization-becomes-an-insights-bonanza/ (https://uxinsight.org/when-research-democratization-becomes-an-insights-bonanza/) Social Media: Kathleen's https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwithNbSl9fyAhUataQKHTIkBEwQFnoECAYQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fse.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fkathleenasjes&usg=AOvVaw2UlATvAy50qeBJc2BpiZhE (LinkedIn)
Eric Garza is the founder and primary instructor at Quillwood Academy, an online institution of higher learning dedicated to helping people throughout the English-speaking world learn to navigate the changing world in which we all live. His background is diverse, spanning ecology and evolution, environmental science and policy, ecological economics, and systems thinking. Eric has also invested years learning and practicing place-based living skills, and mentors people in subsistence skills such as bow and arrow making, hunting and fishing, and gathering a wide array of edible and medicinal plants. He also teaches part-time in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. Today's episode is about opening to the world and to the self and attempting to connect the two in the pursuit of a meaningful life. In sharing his story, Eric takes us along in a reflection on how to be vulnerable and to dig deep in the pursuit of oneself. How to be equally a scholar, hunter, carpenter, community server and more? How does he find the balance between service for others and care for the self? How has he integrated his part-time academic self to his other selves and how does he monitor his own biases within his academic endeavours? Listen to the episode to hear more about it. (PLEASE NOTE: This conversation touches on trauma, including intergenerational trauma, suicide, and mental health). Mentioned in Podcast: https://quillwood.org/ (Quillwood Academy) https://quillwoodpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ (Quillwood Podcast) https://course.bayoakomolafe.net/ (We will dance with mountains), course by Bayo Akomolafe Social Media: http://ericgarza.info/ (Eric's bio)
Angelina Kussy is an economic anthropologist from Warsaw and activist with Barcelona en Comú, the citizen platform governing Barcelona, working for municipalism and Fearless Cities. We are happy to have Angelina with us speaking to her background and current work. Angelina shares her views and dialectical relationship to activism & scholarship and takes us through the multiple projects she is currently engaged with.Her areas of interest are economic anthropology, especially work, public policies for social protection, the care crisis, and transnational migration in enlarged Europe. Her research employs the perspective of gender, class, and other factors of social inequality and qualitative research methods: in-depth and semi-structured interviews, life histories, and ethnographic observations (although she has also collected data for mixed-methods projects).Angelina is a member of the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work of the Rovira i Virgili UniversityandNotus – applied social research centre.Angelina is writing her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on domestic workers and the extractivist social organization of care in Europe. She has also written journalistic articles for the Polish and Spanish press that disseminate anthropological knowledge and social critique. We are happy to have Angelina with us speaking to her background and current work. Angelina shares her views and dialectical relationship to activism & scholarship and takes us through the multiple projects she is currently engaged with. Lastly as a speaker of the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the planet she shares how she will be contributing to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.Mentioned:https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/angelina-kussy/Media :You can reach her at Twitter: @angelinakussy and Research Gate:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angelina-Kussy-2
We are happy to have Cristina with us speaking to her background and current work. Cristina shares her views and relationship to activism and, as a scholar, the importance of balancing sympathy with a critical, analytical and self-reflexive research lens. What can an ethnographic perspective bring different than other research methods? What is the difference of applying ethnographic research to activist spaces vs others? What is the value of a conference space and why should you invest in physical attendance? Lastly as a key note of the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the planet she shares how she will be contributing to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.Cristina Flesher Fominaya is a co-founder of the open-access social movements journal Interface and Editor-in-Chief of SocialMovement Studies. She holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Cristina publishes widely on politics, social movements and democracy in both academic and media outlets. Her three most recent books are Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain's Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos (Oxford University Press); Social Movements in a Globalized World (Palgrave Macmillan/Red Globe); and The Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Routledge).Mentioned:Why the World needs Anthropology, Mobilizing the Planet https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/cristina-flesher-fominaya/Media :Check Cristina Flesher Fominaya's profile at academia.edu and Google Scholar ProfileRecommended reading – all open-access PDF: Collective Identity in Social Movements: Central Concepts and DebatesFeminism, women´s movements and women in movementRedefining the Crisis/ Redefining Democracy: Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain's PAH MovementCreating Cohesion from Diversity: The Challenge of Collective Identity Formation in the Global Justice Movement
Julienne Weegels is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam's Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA). Her research interests include violence, (in)security, memory-making, and criminalization. For this ethnographic project, she carried out 31 months of field research with Nicaraguan inmates, through two theater programs in two prisons (a state prison and a police prison), between May 2009 and January 2016. She is particularly interested in the embodied (gendered, classed, and racialized) politics and aesthetics of order-making and protest, including practices of repression and incarceration. Currently, Julienne works on Nicaragua's political crisis and the development of its hybrid carceral state.We are happy to have Julienne with us speaking to her background and current work at the intersection of scholarship and political activism. How to look at & engage with patterns of political mobilization with attention to the local? How to navigate being an expert and an activist ? How to engage with the discomfort of being labeled an expert on Nicaragua? She speaks to how she deals with affect and neutrality in her work but also to the process of producing knowledge through intimate encounters with other people's policies. Lastly as a speaker of Why the world needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the Planet she shares how she will be contributing to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.The Human Show - World Podcasts
Alex Khasnabish is a writer, researcher, and teacher committed to collective liberation living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on unceded and unsurrendered Mi'kmaw territory. He is a Professor in Sociology & Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on radical imagination, radical politics, social justice, and social movements. His recent books include What MovesUs: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination (co-edited with Max Haiven), The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (co-authored with Max Haiven), and Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Ethnography, Activism, and the Political (co-edited with Jeffrey Juris).We are happy to have Alex with us speaking to his background and current work at the intersection of scholarship and political engagement. Alex shares how he came into his path as well as the unfolding of his conflicted relationship with academia, researching and teaching in the space of political imagination. What can research do with and for social movements ? How can we use research as a tool to make the struggles for social justice stronger and more ambitious ?. Alex gives us a small glimpse into Radical Imagination, a project where he – together with other scholars – attempts to find answers to these questions. Lastly as a speaker of Why the world needs Anthropology, Mobilizing the Planet he shares how he will be contributing to the theme as well as his advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.Mentioned in Podcast:Why the World needs Anthropology, Mobilizing the Planet September 2021 https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/alex-khasnabish/Learn more about the Radical Imagination project.Social Media :Website : https://alexkhasnabish.com/
Today's episode is an experiment to stretch out disciplinary boundaries by paring up academic debates of philosophy & engineering (& of course anthropology). We are delighted to have with us academics & practitioners representing those different disciplines. What are the personal definitions of multidiscipinarity that make sense to Simone, Gunter and Marcus? We discuss proliferation of academic output, disciplines and increasing number of journals. Our speakers share their worldviews on disciplinary boundaries and experiences with complex cultural engagements, which do not always give the intended results. Listen to the episode to follow this reflexive conversation about intellectual development and current academic changes.
Mark Vacher is an associate professor of ethnology at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Tom O'Dell is a professor of ethnology at Lund University, Sweden, whose own research has primarily focused upon the cultural economy, the significance of mobility and transnational cultural processes. Mark and Tom have collaborated for many years on developing programs of applied ethnography. We are curious to know their reasons, methods and lessons learned. Mark and Tom emphasize the value of digging into the problem before starting to look for solutions. But how do they make it work and how did they design a course that gives students the tools to do that? What are the skills students are expected to develop and what questions to answer? Is there certain theory that helps achieve the goals defined by the program? Mark and Tom reflect on their own approach to ethnology, on the role context plays - different in Sweden and in Denmark, and on the importance of having the right colleagues to work with. Lastly they offer advice for those interested in walking a similar path. Mentioned in Podcast:Multi-targeted ethnography and the Challenge of Engaging New Audiences and Publics, Thomas O'Dell, 2017, In: Sociological Research Online. 22, 4, p. 193-207 Handbook of Anthropology in Business, Edited By Rita M Denny and Patricia L Sunderland, 2016, Routledge Social Media:Tom - https://www.kultur.lu.se/en/person/ThomasODellMark - https://saxoinstitute.ku.dk/research/ethnology/?pure=en/persons/201204
We are pleased to have Ferne with us talking about anthropology of food – a field that has been at the core of her research and professional focus for the last 17 years. How did food become Ferne's topic? What were the drivers that moved her anthropological research from food, to sustainable city movements to political ecology? Ferne describes herself as an activist scholar and describes the way she balances the stillness of mind that academic work requires and the rush that the applied work often entails. We ask how to be an ethical consumer in a city environment and how does the pandemic influence the sustainable actions and social resilience? Ferne shares her experience on working in cross-disciplinary setups and describes what she found to be the best fit for her. At the end, we ask for an advice for those considering a similar path. Dr. Ferne Edwards is a cultural anthropologist specializing in sustainable cities, food systems and social change and works across disciplines including geography, design, health, and planning. Ferne is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NTNU, Norway working on Socially and Environmentally Just Transitions specialising in urban natures. She has conducted research in Australia, Venezuela, Ireland and Spain on food waste, urban beekeeping, non-monetised alternative food economies, and food sharing, contributing to more than 30 publications. Ferne is also highly active in running international collaborative networks and events: she ledEdiCitNet to establish an international edible cities network; is an UrbanA Fellow for Just and Sustainable Cities, Awards Director for ‘Why the World Needs Anthropologists', Review Editor for Frontiers Journal, and an Australian Anthropology Society Fellow. In 2013 Ferne was appointed a World Social Science Fellow by theInternational Social Science Council, and in 2016 became a Fellow of the Australian Anthropology Society and an Honorary Associate at the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University. Mentioned in Podcast:Why The World Needs Anthropologists, https://www.applied-anthropology.com/Nelson, Anitra; Edwards, Ferne. (2021) Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices. Routledge. 2021. ISBN 978-0-367-43646-9Open Table, https://www.open-table.org/what-we-doPollen, Political Ecology Network, https://politicalecologynetwork.org/about/Norwegian University of Science and Technology, https://www.ntnu.edu/ Social media:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferne-edwards/We are pleased to have Dr. Ferne Edwards, a cultural anthropologist with us talking about anthropology of food – a field that has been at the core of her research and professional focus for the last 17 years.
We are happy to have Amina and Min'enhle with us sharing their research insights and pursuits as well as motivation to be part of the Reponse-ability Summit this May. They share the questions currently at the centre of their research. What does context mean for data mining and machine learning? How can we think of algorithms as main interlocutors of research? There is a general lack of locally produced data for AI systems building and how to approach the issue of algorithms dumped on the African populations? And how are the investors' geographical inclinations dictating the AI development in developing localities? As beautifully put by one of our speakers “online conferencing has broken the borders”, thus, we are curious to know what do they expect this open landscape to bring to their professional lives. Listen to hear the reflections to all the questions raised above and more.
Mariliis Öeren is the Chief Scientific Officer at Method X Studios, a company focused on democratising good mental health and ending the mental health poverty gap. Previously she has worked for the National Institute of Health Development in Estonia implementing public health programs. Mariliis holds a PhD in Behavioural Science from the University of Cambridge and has been involved in the development and assessment of a variety of risk behaviour prevention interventions.We are talking to Marillis today about her contribution to and expectations from the soon-to-be-happening Response-ability Summit! She shares research insights which led Method X Studios to the development of Wakey – an app targeting left behind populations who are currently not benefitting from the digital mental health boom but who are most in need of it. What was the reason for choosing this field and this topic as a research focus? As she herself points out, Mariliis is relatively new to the industry space and is in the process of defining it for herself. We wonder how she feels in this multidisciplinary space and what strikes her as new, difficult or inspiring. We talk of the relationship between industry and academia in the context of the summit and beyond. At last, she shares what to expect from her talk at the summit, who should come listen and what motivated her to join.Mentioned in Podcast:Response-ability Summit, May 20-21 (Formerly Anthropology + Technology Conference) https://response-ability.tech/ Method X Studios, https://www.methodxstudios.com/Wakey, https://www.wakey.life/Social media:LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtoeren/
Agnethe Kirstine Grøn is a senior design anthropologist at Alexandra Instituttet in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is engaged in many aspects of user involvement and user-driven innovation and combines anthropological methodology and design processes to gain a deep understanding of end users and potentials / barriers for change. Agnethe is an expert in facilitating co-creation processes involving different stakeholders, with particular focus on projects concerned with sustainability, technology, and urban development. Her approach provides a new perspective on a task and helps make complex academic knowledge relevant and easy to understand for the target group.We have the pleasure of talking to Agnethe today about her approach as a design anthropologist and her recent research on an “algorithm-journey” model, which will be presented at the upcoming Response-ability Summit on May 20-21st 2021. The method has been created using Service Design tools and allows to map the algorithm journey in order to identify the touchpoints relevant to different stakeholders. ‘One thing is claiming an explanation, another thing is giving an explanation that makes sense' says Agnethe. In order to implement AI in an ethical way, we need to decide what do we expect from a human and why is it different from what we expect from an algorithm. No less relevant question, according to Agnethe, is how much transparency do we really need? We are curious to learn more about the method and the insights she took away from the research. Finally we ask Agnethe, what is it about the summit that makes it feel like a place to return to each year. Listen to the episode to find out.Mentioned in Podcast:Response#Ability Summit, May 20-21 (Formerly Anthropology + Technology Conference) https://response-ability.tech/ Danish Design Centre, https://danskdesigncenter.dk/en/frontpageAlexandra Instituttet, https://alexandra.dk/Social media:Agnethe Kirstine Grøn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnethegroen/
In light of the upcoming Response-ability Summit this May 20th-21st , we are excited to be talking to two of its amazing speakers – Malé and Luke – and find out what will they be bringing to the conference space and what expectations do they share. We discuss how to use creative ways to form a space of exchange and how to exercise ethics. What is the end of me and the beginning of someone else? We also cover ethics for more-than-humans - if nature can produce technologies, then why would it not have its own ethics too? Through the isITethical? platform, they have formulated an Ethics through Design (EtD) approach, which uses Design Research and playful Art Thinking methods to support Knowledge Exchange and ethical reflections for responsible innovation. Malé and Luke give us a sneak preview of the ritual design workshop Dancing with the Trouble of AI and invite participants to come for a dose of hope instead of worry.Mentioned in Podcast:Response-ability, Formerly Anthropology + Technology Conference, May 20-21, https://response-ability.tech/IsITethical, https://www.isitethical.org/Dancing with the trouble, https://www.malelujanescalante.com/project-01Social media:Malé Luján Escalante, https://www.malelujanescalante.com/Luke Moffat, https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-robert-moffat-872a82ba/
Karen Boswall is a filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, and visual anthropologist. Her audio-visual output includes individually authored and collaborative productions carried out in Nicaragua (1984), the United Kingdom (1986), Iraq (1993), Cuba (1995), Mozambique (1997-2018), Jordan (2014), Nepal (2016), and Brazil (2019).Between 1990 and 2007, she lived and worked in Mozambique as a musician, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. Her award-winning films and radio documentaries produced in this context explore the spiritual, cultural, and environmental worlds of individuals and communities through their music and dance practices. Boswall has taught Visual Anthropology and Film and Television at the University of Kent (2008–2009), Canterbury Christ Church University (2010–2014), Manchester Metropolitan University (2015-2016), and the University of Sussex (2017-2019). She conducted her doctoral research on collaborative music research and film production in Mozambique, and she continues to use collaborative and decolonial audio-visual methodologies to support those working to improve their access to basic human rights in Mozambique, especially women and girls. We are delighted to have Karen speaking to her experience as a filmmaker and artist documenting the world from an anthropological perspective. We are curious to know how Karen deals with the complex question of representation of the individuals and communities whose lives her films bring to a two dimensional form. How does she approach her own positionality? And what place does theory take in her visual work? Karen reflects on the way she engages the communities she works with and on her approach to co-create and enable groups to have a direct voice. How to distinguish between authorship and facilitation? At the end, we ask Karen to give advice to those who might be considering visual anthropology as a career path and to tell our listeners about her own success drivers that accompanied her throughout her interesting journey. Mentioned in Podcast:MacDougall, David (2019). The Looking Machine: Essays on Cinema, Anthropology and Documentary Filmmaking. Manchester University Press.Social media:Website : https://www.karenboswall.com/
In today's episode hosted by Tiffany, Sawyer shares his experience as a UX researcher working in Thailand and applying anthropological frameworks and practices for design and innovation projects. Digital technology is a new reality for both the researcher and the research participant, so how does it affect the research process and what to keep in mind when designing it? We fail as a user of digital technologies when we try to use digital technologies to replace the in-person experience. Tiffany and Sawyer reflect on creative ways to deal with this new reality imposed by technical complexities and the need to rethink existing methodologies. Finally, Sawyer gives some tips based on his recent experiences and shares his hopes for ethnography in Thailand in the upcoming years.Mentioned in Podcast:Teak research, http://www.teakresearch.com/Miro, visual collaboration platform, https://miro.com/Daniel Miller, How to conduct an ethnography during social isolation,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSiTrYB-0so Social Media:Tiffany: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ycttivasuradej/Sawyer:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sawyer-lahr-28066519/
We are excited to have Tiffany hosting the episode today and sharing her experience of conducting ethnography outside of academia in the Asian context together with Nicholas and Oshin. As a colonial discipline in its origins, anthropology inevitably carries the Western gaze, something of which to be cautious in the day-to-day research. Is there a need for a framework, methods and a way of thinking designed for anthropologists from Asia in Asia? Tiffany, Oshin and Nicholas share insights of how to be an applied anthropologist at home and reflect on the hopes and ambitions for design anthropology within Asia.Mentioned in Podcast:Everything Design Show, https://anchor.fm/everything-design-show
In today's episode we explore Jennifer's multiple and equally strong yet seemingly unrelated careers. We ask how she balances the different skills needed and how she makes spaces for them inside herself? As a soprano, Jennifer is used to being in the spotlight, so we are curious how she manages to equally embrace the role of the silent observer. Being busy keeps Jennifer interested and thus allows her to accomplish more. But how to organize the workflow so that the thought-making process is given the deserved space and time? Jennifer also reflects on the highlights of her PhD project, which led her to writing a book, and on the unique working conditions that only academia can create. Listen to the episode to get energized by Jennifer's vibrant approach to life and research.Mentioned in Podcast:The Royal Anthropological Institute, Illustrating Anthropology, https://illustratinganthropology.com/jennifer-cearns/Being Human Podcast, https://anchor.fm/public-anthropologistsWebsite - https://www.jennifercearns.com/
Wendy is a researcher in the field of design anthropology whose written work, research and design practices have contributed to the foundation of what we now perceive as design anthropology. She holds an MA and a PhD in Social Anthropology both at the University of Manchester. She taught at architecture department at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. From 2005-2017 she was Associate Professor of design anthropology at University of Southern Denmark. Subsequently, she has held teaching and research positions in Australia, Belgium, USA and China. As a researcher, Wendy has cross-disciplinary expertise in design, architecture and anthropology and significant experience of conducting collaborative research as part of multidisciplinary design teams involving both public and private sectors. Central to her research is a close connection between theory and practice, research and teaching. She has developed research insights into how collaborative processes work as well as how anthropology can play an important role in design, whether in product, architectural and engineering design. Wendy's publications explore such processes through ethnographic documentation of design experimentation and analysis of emergent properties, involving learning, imagination and cooperation.In today's episode we talk to Wendy about her experience of shaping design anthropology and the ways collaborative research practices in this emerging field have evolved. How does she reconcile the designer, architect and anthropologist that dwell within her? In what ways has the cross-disciplinary collaboration given Wendy strength to navigate different kinds of design processes and practices? We inquire about the challenges and difficulties that this navigation sometimes implies. We reflect on research as a future making practice and on ways of being a researcher within that space. We close with stimulating questions and a research case: how do you conduct fieldwork without actually being there? How can you as a researcher make research practices more sustainable? and how do you engage astronauts in carrying out anthropological research? Mentioned in podcast:Tim Ingold, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_IngoldSara Green, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Green_(anthropologist)Sarah Pink, https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/sarah-pinkKaren Barad, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_BaradKathleen Stewart, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/d9109Jacob Buur, https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/buurChristian Clausen, https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/100768
Mikko Koria; a curious person who wears many hats: about design, interdisciplinarity and ways to reach joint meanings. Mikko Koria is; the Professor in Design Innovation and the Director of the Institute for Design Innovation at Loughborough University London, and Visiting Professor at Aalto University, Finland. He holds degrees in Architecture from University of San Paulo and Helsinki University of Technology, an MBA in Design Management from the University of Westminster and a PhD in Economics and Business Administration from the Helsinki School of Economics.Over the last thirty years, Mikko has led complex, multicultural, and interdisciplinary initiatives and organisations, building teams and meaningful solutions in humanitarian work and business contexts, in many cases linking technical and social goals. Next to SMEs, start-ups, and multinationals, he worked with organizations such as the Red Cross, EU, UNICEF the World Bank in the UK, Finland, Brazil, and multiple other Asian, African, and South American countries. Key areas of research and professional practice include design driven education and training, value-intensive management, service design and innovation, policymaking, business models and ecosystems, entrepreneurship, and global management.Today we are pleased to have Mikko Koria is with us and engage in a reflective chat about design, research, identity, interdisciplinarity and ethics. Mikko introduces himself as a person who has never quite figured it out and is constantly driven by curiosity to understand what is around the corner. From here on, we discuss design innovation and its inherent interdisciplinarity. How does a designer use the co-creation tools differently from an anthropologist? How to give voice to the people who do not understand their input? How to work around different agendas and achieve a joint meaning? At the end, Mikko reflects on the humane qualities that might bring a design practitioner closer to figuring out the unknowns.Mentioned in Podcast: Institute for Design Innovation at Loughborough University London, https://www.lborolondon.ac.uk/institutes/design-innovation/Social media: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikko-koria-44864a1/
Simone Abram is a professor of anthropology at Durham University where she is also a Director of the Durham Energy Institute, and is the current Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists in the UK. She holds a BSc/MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, an MSt and DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Simone's research projects span across multiple fields and a wide range of interests with a strong focus on energy. Simone is currently a researcher at the National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI), a £5m 5-year, 5-university research project, in which she brings anthropological methods and perspectives to the process and conceptualisation of energy modelling, and at the Include research centre for socially inclusive energy transitions, based in Oslo Norway. Additionally, Simone has recently helped to found a new European network on energy anthropology, is a member of the EASA Future Anthropology Network and a series editor of the Berghahn Public and Applied Anthropology series with Prof Sarah Pink.Corina and Maria talk to Simone about the anthropology of energy, ethics in the field of energy governance and sustainability dilemmas for individuals and communities alike. What questions brought Simone, an engineering graduate, to anthropology? Simone reflects on her own ethnography learning process, the challenge of entering a new knowledge area and the fresh perspectives brought by engaging with other disciplines. We explore other questions such as: can energy possibly have an international ethical foundation and how to reconcile different epistemological notions in order to arrive at a common understanding? What about the balance between social inequality and sustainability measures? Simone shares her thoughts and experiences as a researcher, academic and an individual actively engaged in community building practices. Mentioned in Podcast:Durham Energy Institute, https://www.dur.ac.uk/dei/Arctic encounters: Contemporary Travel/Writing in the European High North, http://heranet.info/projects/hera-2012-cultural-encounters/arctic-encounters-contemporary-travelwriting-in-the-european-high-north/Just Transition: Pathways to Socially Inclusive Decarbonisation, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344475984_Just_Transition_Pathways_to_Socially_Inclusive_DecarbonisationWendy Parker on climate modelling, https://durham.academia.edu/WendyParkerTimothy Morton, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Morton Social media:Twitter: @MScEnSocLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-abram/?originalSubdomain=uk
In today's episode, we reflect on the concepts of community and fellowship in the world of those practicing anthropology. We ask Mary and Elizabeth about the relationship that they have with their discipline and the community of practitioners within it. What do they feel they need from colleagues, critics and journals – all of which form the axis of the anthropological community? How to be excellent without being elitist and violent but instead generous and welcoming? Is there room for imagining that failure is a building exercise? How to be fully present for each other without undermining the critical interrogation? How to transform a conflict into a conversation? Stay with us throughout this reflective episode in which abstract questions are approached with very concrete and personal perspectives.Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research as well as an E.J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University. Mary holds an M.A. in Anthropology from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in communications at University of California, San Diego. She also serves on the Executive Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and is a past board member of the American Anthropological Association. More recently, Mary has also turned her attention to the emerging field of AI and ethics, focusing on research methods that bring computer and social sciences together.Elizabeth J Chin is a professor at Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena and the Editor-in-Chief of the American Anthropologist. She holds a double major degree in Drama and Anthropology from New York University and a PhD in Anthropology from the City University of New York. Her work spans a variety of topics–race, consumption, Barbie–but nearly always engages marginalized youth in collaboratively taking on the complexities of the world around them. Taking writing very seriously, Elizabeth's work increasingly investigates the ethnographic voice with an eye toward decolonizing anthropological knowledge as it appears on the page.
Today we are talking to Annemiek about her experience with multidisciplinary. How did it happen that a designer with an engineering background started weaving anthropological perspectives into her approach to design? What ignited her turn towards a culture sensitive design? What does it take to design for a diverse society?. She also elaborates on the importance of combining a curious mind with a pragmatic attitude and the added value of being part of academia. We ask Annemiek to tell us more about her recently published book and the motivation behind this big project. And lastly, how does Annemiek see the impact of the recent designs as a reaction to Covid19: are they adding to the homogenizing trend or the opposite? Listen to this episode and lets reflect on those questions together.
Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research as well as an E.J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University. Mary also maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University.Prior to that, Mary obtained her B.A. in Anthropology and Native American studies at University of California, Davis, a M.A. in Anthropology from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in communications at University of California, San Diego. She also serves on the Executive Board of Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) and is a past board member of the American Anthropological Association.Her single-authored work takes up interests in how we do ethnographically-informed media research and the implications of media in the lives of those who have limited access to it or contribute to information and data economies in ways that often go unnoticed. More recently, Mary has also turned her attention to the emerging field of AI and ethics, focusing on research methods that bring computer and social sciences together We are delighted to be talking to Mary today! Her impressive career path at the intersection of business and academia shows that it is possible to develop both as a scholar and a practitioner of anthropology. We ask Mary to go back in time to when she discovered her anthropological side and share how it manifested itself She speaks to the key role curiosity has played and continues to play in her life and career. We ask her several questions. How much freedom to contest, reflect and choose does a researcher have when working in the Microsoft Research team? What does it take for a company to create knowledge and when should that knowledge be public or private? At the end Mary reflects on her own positionality and means to continuously re-center and the special place that scholarly communities have in this process.Mentioned in podcast:Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, 2019 ( https://ghostwork.info/ )Social media:Biography: https://marylgray.org/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marylgraymsr/Twitter: https://twitter.com/marylgray?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Lisa Talia Moretti is an award-winning digital sociologist, strategist and tech ethics activist based in London. She currently holds the position of Head Of User Research at Methods. For more than a decade, she's studied and written about the relationship between technology, information and society. Lisa is an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths (University of London) and at Cardiff University. She is also a visiting teacher at Plymouth University and at Sup de Pub in Paris. Her teaching area of expertise is Digital Research Methods, Design Thinking, Campaign Analytics and Social Media and Brand Strategy. Lisa's research projects with Goldsmiths and King's College have seen her collaborate with To Play For, IpSoft, Adobe, Mindshare and Rackspace. Her research covers a range of technologies including AI, chatbots, VR and AR, and wearable technology and has gained international coverage with CNN, BBC, Fast Company, Campaign, Techcrunch, Forbes and others.We are excited to have Lisa with us today talking about ethics & technology. As a digital sociologist she researches the intersection between computer, theory and social life as she approaches technology as a social system in itself rather than a product inside a system. How does this approach shape Lisa's work? What are some of the major breakthroughs this system has gone through in the last decade? What are the most pressing issues created by technology and how to prevent dehumanization? Next to these questions, we also explore others like what's the difference between Tinder and adds in a newspaper and how did we get so comfortable with getting into cars with strangers on Uber? Lastly, Lisa also gives a sneak preview of her conference talk and shares her personal motivation for attending it. Mentioned in Podcast:Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th OctoberGoldsmiths, University of LondonIpsos research on trust, Ipsos Thinks-Trust: The TruthTEDxSquareMile talk by Lisa Talia Moretti, Technology is not a product, it's a systemSocial media:LinkedInTwitter
Rachel O'Dwyer is a lecturer in Digital Cultures in the School of Visual Culture in the National College of Art & Design, (NCAD) Dublin. Among other things she coordinates modules on Economies of Culture and Digital Cultures and teach electives on topics such as Art and Money, Tactical Media and the Politics of Algorithms and Networks. She is formerly a Media and Communications Research Fellow in CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin, a Government of Ireland Scholar and a Fulbright scholar at UC Irvine, California's Future of Money Research Institute.Erin B. Taylor is a consultant, researcher and writer with 17 years of experience designing and implementing projects, directing teams, managing budgets, and producing outputs for diverse audiences. She holds a PhD in Socio Cultural Anthropology from Sydney University and was a postdoctoral researcher on financial mobility at the University of Lisbon. Erin is the co-founder of Canela Consulting, an ethnography-driven research and consulting group focused on finance and technology. Her topical specializations include questions on financial stress & financial inclusion, impact on new regulations & products on consumers, economic value & attitudes that shape society and more.In today's episode Erin and Corina talk to Rachel, a speaker at the Anthropology + Technology 2020 conference taking place on October 9th online. As the host of the fintech stream, Erin takes us through the setup and gives us some hints on what to expect. Rachel, as one of the speakers on her panel gives us a preview of her talk and takes us through her innovative work on surveillance capitalism, mobile networks and payments. What is surveillance capitalism? What are some of the effects of surveillance capitalism on consumers? Rachel and Erin reflect on the similarities between the field of art and the field of money research. What do art and money have in common? At the end both reflect on what would an ideal research center look like and share their expectations of the conference and those in attendance. Episode Links:Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th , 12th October, https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PowerMoving Through Sound: The Role of Mobile Sonic Technologies in a User's Experience of Urban Place London: Lambert Academic Publishing, (Monograph published from M.Phil thesis), 2010.Whitespaces: A Political Economy of Radio Currently Under Review with MIT Press, Leonardo SeriesRachel O'Dwyer: http://www.rachelodwyer.comErin Taylor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinbtaylor/
Nani Jansen Reventlow is a human rights lawyer who specializes in freedom of expression and strategic litigation. She is also the founding Director of the Digital Freedom Fund, which supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation. Nani is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, Adjunct Professor at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, a Senior Fellow at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Nani is a recognized international lawyer and expert in human rights litigation responsible for standard-setting freedom of expression cases across several national and international jurisdictions. Her scholarly writing on issues in international law, human rights, data protection and international arbitration has been published around the world, and her international human rights work has been covered by a wide variety of media worldwide. She is the recipient of various awards and honors, including Harvard Law School's "Women Inspiring Change" in 2020, and Oxford Internet Institute's Internet and Society award in 2018.We are delighted to be talking to Nani about digitalization, individual rights and freedoms and ways to sustain a just and inclusive society. Nani speaks from the perspective of law and humans rights – a framework, she believes, is still the right one to empower individuals in the age of hyper-digitalization. We ask Nani how is Google different from a public space? What are the threats but also the opportunities of the technological development brought about by covid19? We discuss the position of a consumer in the online space and, as Nani puts it, the under-estimated power that we hold but often need to actively resume. Nani speaks to her field of digital rights decolonization and shares insights of the challenges that underline it. Lastly, she shares her excitement about the digital format of this year's A & T conference as it enhances its accessibility. Mentioned in Podcast:Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October, https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/Media Legal Defense Initiative, https://www.mediadefence.org/Berkman Klein Center, https://cyber.harvard.edu/Digital Freedom Fund, https://digitalfreedomfund.org/Social media: https://www.nanijansen.org/ @InterwebzNani
Rasmus Thomsen is Partner and Design Director of IS IT A BIRD - a strategic innovation agency that combines methods from social science, behavioral economics and design thinking. Rasmus has a foot in both social science and design. He is an innovation geek, with a mind tuned to design thinking. He works at the forefront of development, with a critical understanding of the forces behind disruption, connecting technology, trends and human insights. Rasmus has been deeply involved in hundreds of strategy and innovation projects, as executive, leader and adviser in a wide range of industries (media, transportation, pharma, food and beverage, unions and NGOs, public service, city development and 3D printing) and helped strengthen their capacity at a strategic and tactical level. His clients include NIKE, Mærsk, Novo Nordisk and Henkel among many. With over 100 workshops under his belt, Rasmus holds a unique ability to engage people in culture change.Today we talk to Rasmus about his mission of bridging the gap between technology builders, and the problem spaces technology can play a role in solving. This process – believes Rasmus - entails curiosity, creativity and multidisciplinary. But how to help see the real problems that are worth solving and how can insightful design create technology that adds social value and does not completely remove friction? Our reality is full of contradictions and a good design leaves space for friction in order to support truly human experiences. Rasmus brings in unexpected concepts of masculine and feminine energies to explain the processes in which his work evolves. Lastly, we ask him to give a sneak preview of his talk at the conference on smart cities. Mentioned in Podcast:Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October, https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/IS IT A BIRD, https://isitabird.dk/Design Thinking Bootcamp at Stanford University. https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exec-ed/programs/design-thinking-bootcampSocial media:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasmusgrthomsen/
Dan Wu is a Privacy Counsel & Legal Engineer at Immuta, an automated data governance platform for analytics. He's advocated for data ethics, inclusive urban innovation, and diversity in TechCrunch, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company. He's helped Fortune 500 companies, governments, and startups with ethical & agile data strategies. Dan obtained a PhD in Social Policy and Sociology from Harvard Kennedy School, his doctorate work looked at the inter-sectoral collaboration for sustainable housing. Dan is passionate about how affordable housing can be advanced by technology and law.His extensive research centres on inclusive cities and data strategy and has been widely published within academia and outside of it. Dan has been a guest speaker at Asian development Bank, the Global UNESCO Forum, AI World, All Tech Is Human and more. For the past two years, Dan has been a privacy counsel and legal engineer at Immuta, New York, where he focuses on data and AI regulations and governance and combines law and tech to help companies navigate regulatory environments and accelerate ethical analytics. Find more resources on cities, ethics, and innovation here.Rosalie Post is fellow anthropologist and advisor in the housing sector in the Netherlands. Her research interests too centre on the topic of sustainable housing and its governing mechanisms. She currently works for a consultancy firm that collaborates with municipalities on policy advice on housing projects. In today's episode Rosalie and Dan reflect on the concept of ideal city and the ways we can use technology to achieve it. Dan points out that despite its benefits, technology can easily obscure its many disadvantages. We have not yet managed to accommodate the voices that lack resources and are excluded from the participation. Can AI generated data substitute those voices and if so what are the ethical ways to do that? How much progress has been done in making cities more inclusive in the last 60 years? Dan, Rosalie and Corina dive into a reflective exchange of cases famous in the history of city design and governance - from the ideologically-focused emergence of Brasilia to Taiwan's response to SARs. Lastly, Dan shares stories and initiatives that have helped cities move in the right direction and reflects on the way forward.Mentioned in Podcast:Zencity, https://zencity.io/aboutOscasr Niemeyer, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_NiemeyerJames Holston, The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia, https://www.amazon.com/Modernist-City-Anthropological-Critique-Brasilia/dp/0226349799Le Corbusier, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_CorbusierJane Jacobs, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_JacobsRobert Moses, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses Social media:Dan' s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wu12345/Rosalie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosalie-anne-post-66007b134/
Susan Halford is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of Bristol University's new Digital Futures Institute, which aims to use social science expertise and methods to analyse and understand digital technology futures in the making and use insights to help shape these futures in a way that is fair, just and prosperous for all. A Geographer by training and a Sociologist for 30 years, for the past decade Susan has been working closely with Computer Scientists on interdisciplinary research and education. Susan's current activities concentrate on the challenges and opportunities of the digital age. Her research focuses digital data, infrastructures and computational methods, exploring their implications for how we describe, analyse and intervene in the social world. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is currently President of the British Sociological Association.Today we talk about digital futures – what's ahead for us and how to best shape it together in a multi-disciplinary manner. Susan shares what she thinks have been the fundamental disruptions brought about by digitalization and brings forth many insightful examples from her field of work: the making of socio-digital futures. We explore the challenges of working together with technology experts and the ways in which we can better facilitate multidisciplinary approaches and give space for experimentation. According to Susan, digitalization ties up challenges and opportunities and provides a window to try and reconfigure the status quo. She explores how covid-19 has exacerbated AI processes and the new discussions it could help spark. Finally, Susan shares her expectations from the Anthropology Technology conference and her hope that it will further facilitate the making of socio-digital futures. Mentioned in PodcastAnthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October, https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/Bristol's University Digital Futures Institute, https://www.bristol.ac.uk/bristol-digital-futures-institute/Southampton's University Web Science Instituted, https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi/index.pageCatherine Ingram, Facing Extinction, https://www.catherineingram.com/facingextinction/ Social MediaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-halford-46054028/
Sarita Fae Jarmack is an anthropologist currently exploring the politics of access, expression, and knowledge within the postcolonial art scene of South Africa for her PhD at the University of Amsterdam. We are talking to Sarita about the making of her PhD and get a glimpse into all the processes that happen on the way, which as she herself admits, are rarely given visibility. Sarita shares how she has come to crystalize the topic, calibrate her personal interests with those of the project as well as the biggest challenges throughout its entirety. Sarita also shares with us the key moments of trust building in oneself as a researcher, academic and individual. She also ponders on the value of her work and its place in the production of knowledge as well as on the feeling that academic space can provide, which as she says, can be both comforting and distracting. At the end we ask Sarita to give advice on what are the questions one should ask oneself before embarking on this long academic journey.Mentioned in Podcast:European Research Council project "Becoming Men", http://www.becoming-men.org/Protest movement sin South Africa in 2015: #RhodesMustFall, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall; #FeesMustFall, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeesMustFallSocial media:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saritafaejarmack/https://www.instagram.com/awkward.ethnographer/
In today's episode, Laura leads the discussion with a number of questions for Kadija about AI, machine learning, ethical decisions, fair health and the complexities that underline it all. Kadija's research tackles health disparities through data and aims to make it is more inclusive and ethical. As Laura points out, data is easy to interrogate but how to get at those answers that could lead us to more fairness and prevent biases? Kadija reflects on the importance of insights and touches on the usefulness of anthropological frameworksto see through power hierarchies. She shares stories from her work in which social science often merges with more technical fields to produce results that help move the right direction in making data more ethical. Lastly, they share their expectation for the HealthTech panel and the overall conference. Dr. Kadija Ferryman is a cultural anthropologist who studies the social, cultural, and ethical implications of health information technologies. Specifically, her research examines the impacts of health risk prediction technologies as they relate to marginalized groups. She earned a BA in Anthropology from Yale University, and a PhD in the Anthropology from The New School for Social Research. Before completing her PhD, she was a policy researcher at the Urban Institute where she studied how housing and neighborhoods impact well-being. She is currently a Researcher at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York where she leads the Fairness in Precision Medicine research study. She is also a Mozilla Fellow and will be examining how health information technologies address health disparities. Dr Laura Sobola is a Senior Consultant at Unai and has participated in management and delivery of healthcare related projects, as well as data science projects. She studied Human Genetics at Newcastle University and has a doctorate in biochemistry from University of Oxford. Recently, she has been researching and helping to implement an ethical framework for Unai, which has reignited her interest in ethics.
Chui Chui Tan is a cultural expert with more than 15 years of experience in UX (user experience). Her experiences range from defining business strategies to building a UX team within the organisation to implementation (research and design) and continuous consultancy support as well as training and coaching. She graduated from mechanical industrial engineering, and later pursued a Master in Musical Technology at Queen's University Belfast where she stayed to complete a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Her doctorate was a research project to help visual impaired people to access graphics using multi-modal interfaces. Since then, Chui Chui has worked with global companies and organizations to help them with their launch and to improve international business by integrating user behavioural and cultural insights. She has set up her own company Beyō Global and works with companies such as Spotify, Asana, Marriott, Babylon Health, Google, BBC and others in their pursue to understand their users better. As her specialities, Chui Chui defines international research (culture differences), multichannel strategy, product and interface design, and customer experience.In today's episode, we talk to Chui Chui about her career path, which she had to pave herself in the absence of a structured frame. From mechanical engineering to acculturalisation of products, she shares how she came along her methods and principles of work as well as how they have helped her shape projects and lead cross-functional teams. She reflects on the importance of blending historical context with understanding everyday user actions in order to achieve better innovation. We ask her how to optimally balance proper research with cost and time constraints? Finally we explore how Chui Chui is dealing with doing research in times of COVID and how has she adapted to meet the needs of remote work?
Diana Finch has been Managing Director of Bristol Pound since July 2018. Prior to that, she spent most of the last 20 years working in senior leadership positions in the non-profit sector, in areas including the environment, adult social care and psychotherapy training. Her earlier career was in accounts management and accounting systems design. She is a fellow of both the Finance Innovation Lab and the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers. Diana also offers consultancy areas such as impact measurement, quality assurance systems and business modelling, and is a trustee of Frank Water. In her spare time, she likes to learn languages, dance and go rambling.Erin B. Taylor is a consultant, researcher and writer with 17 years of experience designing and implementing projects, directing teams, managing budgets, and producing outputs for diverse audiences. She holds a PhD in Socio Cultural Anthropology from Sydney University and was a postdoctoral researcher on financial mobility at the University of Lisbon. Erin is the co-founder of Canela Consulting, an ethnography-driven research and consulting group focused on finance and technology. Her topical specializations include questions on financial stress & financial inclusion, impact on new regulations & products on consumers, economic value & attitudes that shape society and more.In today's episode Erin and Corina talk to Diana, a speaker at the Anthropology + Technology 2020 conference taking place on October 9th online. As the host of the fintech stream, Erin takes us through the setup and gives us some hints on what to expect. Diana, as one of the speakers on her panel gives us a preview of her talk and takes us through her innovative work on circular economy and local money together with the challenges that come with it and the research still missing to make it work better. How can money save humanity? How to stop pointless purchases and turn to a different kind of economy in which products and services are about value and not just the price? Localization of money is a way towards creating a more ethical and sustainable consumption and Bristol Pound is on a mission to make it happen. At the end both share their expectations of the conference and those in attendance.Mentioned in Podcast:Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, 9th October: https://www.anthtechconf.co.uk/Bristol Pound, https://bristolpound.org/about/Dawn Walter, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawn-walter-b36903a/Timebanking, https://timebanks.org/what-is-timebanking/University of Bath, https://www.bath.ac.uk/University of West of England, https://www.uwe.ac.uk/ Social mediaDiana Finch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianafinch/Erin Taylor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinbtaylor/
The Anthropology + Technology Conference brings together 22 leading international experts from the social sciences and technology to champion and promote the benefits of responsible AI, and to highlight the value that the social sciences bring to tech and business. There are three streams for 2020: smart cities, fintech, and health tech. Our 2020 keynote is Nani Jansen Reventlow, a human rights lawyer and Director of the Digital Freedom Fund, who will address decolonising digital rights and the need for an intersectional approach.In today's episode we are joined by Dawn Walter, Anthropologist and Organizer to discuss the Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, its current theme and streams on the topic of Championing Socially-Responsible AI.Registration opens in July. Mentioned in Podcast:AUTOMATING INEQUALITY, How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the PoorVirginia Eubanks, St. Martin's PressMundy and Anson Social media and other links:www.anthtechconf.co.ukinfo@anthtechconf.co.ukhttp://www.mundyandanson.co.uk/
[ Notice: This episode is in Portuguese. As a way of letting the interviewees express themselves fully and also to amplify the access to Brazilians, this session was recorded in the interviewee's native language. Thus, Andrea Rozenbaum, a Brazilian anthropologist, is also joining us in this episode as a co-host. A transcript of the episode in English can be found in the podcast's website. ]EN Henrique Parra & Ricardo Teixeira, amplifying the debate: The role of scientists and social scientists in times of uncertaintyIn this session, we continue the conversation we started in the previous episode with Ricardo Teixeira and Henrique Parra. Ricardo is a sanitary doctor, specialized in collective health, and professor at the São Paulo University (USP) in the preventive medicine department, where he develops research focusing on health communication. Henrique is a sociologist and a social sciences professor at UNIFESP, where he coordinates a technology, politics and knowledge lab called Pimenta Lab.In this episode, we deepened our conversation, questioning the sense of responsibility and the feeling of impotence when facing a reality in which it seems hard to glimpse a positive future.Ricardo resumed the idea of social medicine, viewing it as a social science. He highlighted the significance of taking economic, social and political measures at this point.Contrasting the neoliberal model, in which the individual is encouraged to care for his health autonomously in several instances, the interviewees highlighted the vulnerability the pandemic brought. They debated how this makes us realize how interdependent we are, and how we need the collective, the bonds, and the affections to live.We debated about how social scientists could act within the current circumstances, highlighting a transdisciplinary view of life in society. They reiterated the importance of allying the health and the humanities field.We concluded this conversation by reflecting on the future, the environmental implications, and possible transformations in the perception over the individual and the collective. Finally, we talked about what we could not only learn but put into action from everything we are experiencing.
[Notice: This episode is in Portuguese. As a way of letting the interviewees express themselves fully and also to amplify the access to Brazilians, this session was recorded in the interviewee's native language. Thus, Andrea Rozenbaum, a Brazilian anthropologist, is also joining us in this episode as a co-host. A transcript of the episode in English can be found in the podcast's website]In times of so many uncertainties, we talked to a doctor and a sociologist to help us with having a bit more clarity over the moment we are living. On one side, we brought the sanitary doctor Ricardo Teixeira, who is specialized in collective health. With more than 35 years of professional experience, he is a professor at São Paulo University (USP) in the preventive medicine department. He focuses his investigations on health care communication. On the other side, we invited the sociologist Henrique Z.M. Parra, a social sciences professor at Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). There, he coordinates the Laboratory of Technology, Politics and Knowledge (aka Pimentalab). His research focus is on social studies of science and technology, and technopolitics.We started talking about how different countries are responding to deal with the dissemination of COVID-19. Focusing on Brazil, apart from an overview of the health care system's reality, in which there are insufficient tests, we also discussed the difficulty for many Brazilians to follow the social isolation measurements.Although the short-term perspectives are not that optimistic, Henrique proposed an interesting view on alternative uses of technology smartly. Instead of focusing on approaches that reinforce individual responsibility, he suggests an amplification to look at uses of technology that promotes the collective engagement if face of the pandemic.We discussed the State's role and performance in the Brazilian context. They both shared their views on the significance of civil initiatives that have been emerging as responses to circumvent the State's absence in specific moments. They also pointed out how the public health system (SUS) has been gaining relevance. For instance, they mentioned SUS' strategic strengths and the front lines workers' recognition by society. All of this, considering that the system is under-financed by the State, which becomes more evident.We also talked about cultural and structural issues. From the disobedience at various levels to the way the tax system contributes to deepening social inequalities, even when it comes to the health system.This is just the first part of our conversation, which continues into the next episode.For the transcript of this episode, please visit: https://worldpodcasts.com/the-human-show/
Jamie Gordon is a social scientist and consultant whose body of work includes a couple of decades worth of insights and strategies that have been put into action by a global community of brands, corporations and the agencies that serve them. With a B.A. in Anthropology and a M.A. in Applied Sociology both from the University of Central Florida, Jamie has extensively implemented ethnography in the marketing industry as a brand and innovation strategist reaching out to clients through human and cultural insights, storytelling and futuring. Among the many clients she worked with are: The Coca Cola Company, Powerade, Cambell's Soup, Heineken, Unilever, Ford, Google and EBay. Jamie considers turning insights and strategic implications into empathetic narratives that motivate behavior change to be her main mission. Jamie takes us through her journey of becoming a cultural strategist working for the biggest corporate names – a path, she says, that her younger self would not have imagined. Yet she is loving every bit of it and is sharing with us her enthusiasm for the job she does in which ethnography is her main tool to make a difference. How did Jamie move from research to innovation? A social scientist has the rare ability to become a practitioner of many tools and marketing can be the place where we can actually change the world in many ways, says Jamie. She shares examples of how has she managed to bring humanity into business and what methods she relies on to get her insights to have a real impact. We talk about the power of storytelling and the potential of anthropology. *at the time of this recording, Jamie was a freelance strategist. In February 2020 she joined the amazing team at The Mighty Shed.Mentioned in Podcast:EPIC, https://www.epicpeople.org/ Consumer culture theory, https://www.facebook.com/groups/213134458706536/AC Nielsen, https://www.nielsen.com/be/en/The Soulful Project, https://thesoulfullproject.com Social Media:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandsherpa/Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebrandsherpa?lang=en
ENEl Laboratorio de Antropología Abierta (The Open Anthropology Lab) or LAAB is a non-profit organization for the popularization of anthropological knowledge beyond academia. Founded in 2018 by Giselle Figueroa De la Ossa, who after receiving her MSc in Anthropology from The London School of Economics returned back home to Colombia and decided to create a platform opening anthropology for public debate. The LAAB is a space in which anthropological knowledge is translated into an audiovisual language in order to bring anthropology closer to more diverse audiences. It is open to students, graduates and professionals who wish to apply anthropological methods in creative ways. Camila Castillo and Daniela Suarez Valenzuela have joined the LAAB as students and stayed to become part of the permanent team. Today we speak with Giselle, Camila and Daniela about the experimental ways to apply anthropology in a new context to us – Colombia, and wonder what inspired the emergence of this open anthropology platform. How to create a mediating space between two anthropologies, the enclosed academic one the applied limited to industry research only? The LAAB allows for experimentation and exploration of methods that are often new to the anthropologists joining the collective. How to translate an academic text into a textbook and not distort the knowledge? How conveying ethnography to children can educate them about the social world though empathy in a non-normative way? We reflect on the challenges of organizing this experiment, the moments that make it worth going forward and the profound conviction about the anthropological power to transform the world. The episode being in Spanish perfectly reflects the spirit of LAAB - it is a way to experiment with formats in order to hear the voice of the researcher in a new light, and to expand access of knowledge exchange. ESEl Laboratorio de Antropología Abierta: un espacio mediando entre la antropología acadeémica y aplicada: activando la experimentación y posibilitando la traducción del conocimientoEl Laboratorio de Antropología Abierta o el LAAB es una organización sin fines de lucro dirigida a la popularización del conocimiento antropológico más allá de la academia. Fundado en el 2018 por Giselle Figueroa De la Ossa, quien al cumplir su maestría en antropología en la London School of Economics regresó a Colombia y decidió crear una plataforma invitando a un debate público desde la antropología. El LAAB es un espacio donde el conocimiento antropológico está traducido a un lenguaje audiovisual con el objetivo de acercar la antropología a las audiencias más diversas. El LAAB está abierto a los estudiantes, graduados, y personas con perfiles más profesionales dispuestos a aplicar métodos antropológicos en unas formas creativas. Camila Castillo y Daniela Suarez Valenzuela se juntaron al Laboratorio como estudiantes y se quedaron a formar parte del equipo permanente. El episodio siendo en español refleja el espíritu del LAAB perfectamente – es una manera de experimentar con formatos para poder escuchar la voz del investigador con un nuevo enfoque, y expandir el acceso del intercambio del conocimiento. The Human Show: Innovation through Social Science - WorldPodcasts.com
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