Distributed Design Operations Management
In this @designopssummit presentation, we get some practical guidance from @jilannawilson about the role that leaders can play in making remote teams work.
Expensive Routers Create Connections
In this @designopssummit presentation, @indrapendence shares how she used human-centered approaches to improve collaboration within and across teams, while still taking care of herself.
Group Activity: A Deep Dive Into Value and Outcomes
In this interactive @designopssummit session, @bettay and Kamdyne Moore share an initial measurement framework for DesignOps, and solicited audience feedback.
Measuring the Designer Experience
In this @designopssummit presentation, Kim Fellman Cohen shares how @pinterest used Design Thinking to pilot and measure improvements to employee satisfaction of their designers.
Real Talk: Proving Value through a Scrappy Playbook
In this @designopssummit presentation, Dianne Que shares her experiences in creating a ‘scrappy’ playbook, measuring impact, and how to weather change in a dynamic organization.
Measuring What Matters
In this @designsopsummit talk, Kristin Wisnewski shares how IBM’s Office of the CIO makes measurement of impact central to their work.
Opening Keynote: Process and Ambiguity
The @designopsummit kicked off this morning with keynoter @amythibodeau, who shared how she uses frameworks from economics to prioritize where her UX Ops team focuses their efforts.
You Should Watch Secrets of Blackmoor: On the Utility of Oral History
I have recently been digging into the history of computational thinking for other projects and published an excerpt of that work over at Analog Game Studies. That article,…
Book Review: Dead Labor: Towards a Political Economy of Premature Death by James Tyner
In Dead Labor: Towards a Political Economy of Premature Death, James Tyner offers an urgent examination of the extraction of surplus value from the death of labouring bodies. While…
100 Years of Beauty and the Beast of YouTube with Chris Chan
in this episode, Adam and guest host Leslie Walker talk with visual anthropologist and film producer Chris Chan, producer of the 100 Years of Beauty series on YouTube.…
Gefährlicher Konformismus
Der polnische Künstler Artur Żmijewski hat 2005 das berühmte Stanford-Prison-Experiment “überprüft”. Bei ihm werden die Gefängniswärter nicht zu Sadisten, sondern beenden die Versuchsanordnung. Was sa…
Representing Diverse Bodies in Medical Illustration
In 2016, just before I began my dissertation fieldwork, a trio of young medical illustrators presented a panel on “Normativity and Diversity in Healthcare Imagery” at the annual…
Marxism is amphetamines, biopolitics is cocaine: Social science theories as drugs.
Okay so hear me out, I have a new bit: Social science theories as drugs. Biopolitics is cocaine. I like it in small doses, and I can see…
The ethnographic fact: a discussion of ethics in anthropological fieldwork by Florian Göttke
Note: A working-syllabus can be found below. Please add more recommendations in the comments. The lone-fieldworker model of research may still be the norm for anthropology in the…
The Deep Roots of Navajo Country Music
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS What is it about certain musical traditions that cause them to take root in communities far away from where they originated? Anthropologist Kristina…
Land, Life, and Water: Tending to the Landscape of Southern Louisiana
By Hannah Eisler Burnett, University of Chicago § This is a photo essay about the way people cultivate visions of speculative territory and historical landscapes. But in southern…
Francesco Duina, “Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country” (Stanford UP, 2018)
In his new book, Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country (Stanford University Press 2018), Professor Francesco Duina asks why impoverished Americans espouse such great and…
Erik Harms, “Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon” (U California Press, 2016)
What happens when market-oriented policy reforms butt heads with a single-party state’s strictly maintained limits on political freedoms? That question sets the terms for Luxury and Rubble: C……
Klart for bærekraftig bolig- og områdefornyelse?
Gjesteinnlegg av Tore Johannesen, spesialrådgiver i NBBL (Norske Boligbyggelags Landsforbund) Ut fra et bærekraftperspektiv skal ikke bygninger nå rives, men heller bevares og ombygges. Da er det jo…
#MDGComics: Mzungus in Development and Governments! #7
In Section 7 Omar is in search of his own existential place within the research: definitely not inside the Cheraton, maybe far from Mzungus for a while… a holiday…
Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community: A Giving Heritage
It is a great moment for a great project. Some Shreds and Patches readers will remember when, in 2017, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures hosted the special…
“Yes, We Can” and the Power of Political Slogans
“Hey Joe, instead of saying, No we can’t,” retorted Senator Kamala Harris to Vice-President Joe Biden. “Let’s say, Yes, we can.” With that single line, Harris resurrected an…
SAFN Members will be busy at AAAs in Vancouver!
Jennifer Jo Thompson As always, food serves as an interdisciplinary site for investigating a wide range of urgent social issues. This year’s SAFN menu at the annual meeting…