At the Crossroads: EPIC, anthrodesign and the Return of Anthropology
EPIC is pausing its conference for 2027 just as the Wall Street Journal tells readers to study anthropology. Notes on the closing remarks at EPIC2026, the origins of…
EPIC is pausing its conference for 2027 just as the Wall Street Journal tells readers to study anthropology. Notes on the closing remarks at EPIC2026, the origins of…
Notes from Ted Tremper’s closing keynote at EPIC2026: how the Creators Coalition on AI built a shared vocabulary and a role-by-role map of AI’s impact on creative work.
Notes from Ovetta Sampson’s Mindful AI breakout at EPIC2026: AI models come with values built in, and researchers and designers can work upstream to shape them.
Notes from the Deploying Context plenary at EPIC2026: David Ayman Shamma and Brent Hecht on reframing the problem, the cap on cutting labor costs, and why AI is…
Notes from the Building and Evaluating Synthetic People session at EPIC2026: an AI moderator, synthetic focus groups and conversational personas, and why synthetic people are only as useful…
Notes from the Making Research Legible to Machines session at EPIC2026: from mushroom foraging to satellite imagery, why AI needs human and organizational context, and why researchers should…
Notes from the Modeling Context plenary at EPIC2026: what a map of young people’s statements, privacy-aware sensing and the market for expert AI training data show about the…
Notes from Patrícia Alves-Oliveira’s EPIC2026 keynote: what an assistive feeding robot, a creativity robot built with children, and a co-researcher with lived experience show about the role of…
Notes from the EPIC2026 Prototypes & MVPs session: a belt that senses magnetic north, the silences AI skips, and why judgment about where AI belongs in research is…
Cindy Barukh Milstein. 2024. Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice. London: Pluto Press. Constellations of Care is an anthology of answers […] The post Constellations of Care…
How do we read, write, and understand Black visual languages? The post READING BLACK MULTIPLICITIES AND BLACK VISUAL LANGUAGES appeared first on Allegra Lab.
This article introduces The New Ethnographer’s call for a “compassionate turn” in anthropology, extending the reflexive turn by foregrounding how fieldwork impacts researchers as well as interlocutors…
In this article, Nieves Galera reflects on the practical and emotional challenges of conducting ethnographic fieldwork with infants and their families. The post Through the looking glass: learning…
Richard McNeil-Willson critiques sensationalised and unethical approaches to researching so-called “extremist” groups, responding to popular accounts that celebrate deception, infiltration, and person…
Drawing on her Master’s fieldwork in Leipzig, Salma Moustafa Khalil reflects on how orientalism, gender, and racialised assumptions shape ethnographic encounters when a Middle Eastern woman conducts r…
People form a visual impression of a product in about 50 milliseconds, and after judging its credibility based on its appearance, they begin to assess the rest. Does…
It used to be that securing consensus and capacity to build a design system was hard. But today, design systems have become foundational to how software gets built…
This thematic thread presents experiments, exercises, and reflections stemming from a two-day collaborative, practice-led workshop with ‘poetic resonance’. The post Poetic Resonance: Dwelling in the …
This afterword reflects on the practice of ethnography through the metaphor of the anthropologist as a tuning fork—an embodied instrument attuned to the subtle or violent vibrations of…
This experimental essay treats uncertainty as bodily and relational and uses rhythm as a way of noticing it. It begins in the writing vibrations of the Poetic Resonance…
This essay explores how the poetic resonance protocol enabled a deeper, embodied engagement with my ethnographic object: a poetry workshop conducted with wildfire-affected residents in northern German…
In this essay, I trace the force of fury that emerged within a single ethnographic moment and later saturated the analysis. The post In the Face of Fury:…
What does it mean to do research with climate? This essay reflects on the potential of poetic resonance as a method of creative experimentation and (auto)ethnographic practice, attuning…
Before you commission a single new study, institutional knowledge and existing research can give your product roadmap a head start. In Tuesday’s post, I made the case for…