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But what is it that they actually do that’s so useful to design? Social scientists are essentially professional observers, using ethnographic tools to understand what they see, and manage any potential biases they might have. My favourite ethnographic technique or term is that of ‘thick description’: coined by Clifford Gertz as a way to sum up how we should analyse objects including their multiple meanings, rather than just what it was (a ‘thin description’).
Erving Goffman’s idea of front and back stage actions (for example, how waiters act in the public part of the restaurant vs. behind the swinging door, amongst other examples)
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- Cultures use myth, storytelling, and rituals in similar ways to help make meaning and sense out of the world - Joseph Campbell lays this out in his book “The Hero With a Thousand Faces”, while Claude Levi-Strauss does it more densely in “The Raw and The Cooked“
- Actor-network theory (ANT) - created by Bruno Latour and others with the main gist that a lot happens between people and other agents (even inanimate objects), and that this is in a continual state of change.
- Why: While architecture may seem to be at the opposite end of the design spectrum to IxD - we deal with the personal and ephemeral, they the collective and permanent - it has a few points worth noting:
  
  a need to deal with complex living systems
  a history of encouraging research in their field (something that pushes it far ahead of say, industrial design)
  and a general philosophical bent to their work (no wonder Ayn Rand was able to set a book and ideology behind an architect!)
- Why: Mental models didn’t start with Indy Young, and affordances didn’t start with Don Norman. Some of the ideas behind affordances can be traced back to the Gestalt theorists - a school of thought believing in the importance of patterns and that the sum of something is greater than the parts.
- Why: There’s been a growing discussion in the last few years on the role of language in design, including Adaptive Path and Cooper. However, linguists assert that language has a profound effect on how we perceive the world in general. Lakoff and Johnson’s ‘Metaphors We Live By’ is a classic that suggests we have fundamental linguistic metaphors that shape our lives e.g.:
  
  IDEAS are CONTAINERS
  TIME is IN FRONT OF US and we MOVE THROUGH IT
  HAPPINESS is UP, SADNESS is DOWN
- Interaction design or experience design is about just that - interactions and experiences. Literature explores these thing - slowly, carefully, leaving room for interpretation.
- The general steal: The ultimate in low-fi experience prototyping, literature can give inspiration and a method of slowing down.

21 Sep 09

Rumi Shivaz Innovation Blog: Public Sector Innovation & Service Design

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16 Sep 09

Forum For Democracy

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Nils Gilman: The Global Illicit Economy

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22 Jul 09

thinkpublic: social innovation and design on Vimeo

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21 Jul 09

Blue Zones - Places In the World Where People Live to 100 and Stay Healthy | Singularity Hub

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Five blue zones have so far been identified and thoroughly researched by journalist Dan Buettner in a partnership with National Geographic during more than five years of on-site investigation.

17 Jul 09

Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » Toward a New Future of “Whatever”

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13 Jul 09

African Agriculture: Radio, video key to agricultural innovation in Africa

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Two-thirds of rural women creatively applied ideas illustrated by videos demonstrating improved food processing techniques compared to less than 20 percent who attended training workshops Cotonou, Benin – Conventional media, radio and video, are powerful, accessible and relevant forces of agricultural innovation and transformation in Africa than usually considered, a study published in a recent issue of the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability reveals.
“Farmers’ innovations are often shaped by capital limitations and mainly rely on locally available resources, of which knowledge is a key one,”
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- “The adaptations by Benin women to improve rice processing after having watched the video illustrate the power of video to quickly stimulate creativity among rural people, who are often seen as much more passive technology consumers,” says Van Mele. “Besides being more powerful, video was also able to reach more people than conventional training workshops.”
- In order to effectively capitalize on the potential of radio and video technologies in Africa, the study recommends broadening the common outlook on innovations beyond the traditional research and extension systems to include localized farmer innovations too. “Local innovations better reflect the realities of rural people than do outside techniques,” say the study authors.

22 Jun 09

metacool: Paul Bennett & Egill Helgason on design thinking, Iceland, the future of the world economy, and a whole bunch of other important topics

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16 Jun 09

BBC NEWS | Technology | Why Cisco has designs on your home

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That claim is backed by research that shows that by 2013, internet traffic will reach 667 exabytes and 90% of that will be made up of video.
Cisco's study helps to explain the company's efforts to brand itself as a lead provider of what it calls "consumer experiences".
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- In early June, Cisco boss John Chambers told a conference that "video is the future and if you ask what excites me most, it's probably how video's going to change our lives - both personally and the way we work."