Constellations of Care: Anarcha-Feminism in Practice
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…
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 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 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 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…
When a company hits the scaling wall, the first instinct is usually structural changes like reorganizing, creating new roles, bringing in a senior hire. Org changes feel substantive,…
Midway through a recent coffee with a brilliant colleague, our conversation turned, as they so often do, to the various […] The post Care, commons and thinking together:…
A Case Study on Collaboration with UX and Data Science Introduction This post is related to two previous ones that may be of interest. The first is a…
A Case Study on Collaboration with UX and Data Engineering Last year I wrote about building AI-enabled solutions, and I promised to share some case studies which led…
When adoption fails, it’s rarely about the technology — it’s almost always about people. Adoption is a Key Driver of ROI The slide that anchors this post breaks…
For technology leaders and founders, a perspective on people is something you want in the room every step of the way. Anthropology – and human-centered design more broadly…
From February 13 to 29 May 2026 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. What is critique, and what might […] The post WHAT is critique? EASA LAWnet…
An archaeologist studying 1,000-year-old dog burials reflects on the need for imagination in archaeology. ✽ WITH STEADY HANDS, a crouching archaeologist brushes away centuries of soil, revealing the…
A phone full of photos of shelves full of food. Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to…