Category Archives: Ethnography
Broken Stories
Client: Fixperts What is the Value of Fixing? What are the social motivations and relationships which happen around fixing? Our group set out to help Fixperts conceptualise where, how and for whom fixing works best, and explore new kinds of social
Broken Stories
Client: Fixperts What is the Value of Fixing? What are the social motivations and relationships which happen around fixing? Our group set out to help Fixperts conceptualise where, how and for whom fixing works best, and explore new kinds of social
Design Anthropological Futures
Announcement: Book Release http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/design-anthropological-futures-9781474280600/ The book Design Anthropological Futures will be published by Bloomsbury in September 2016. It comprises a major overview of the various ways in which design anthropology tackles the tricky issue of futures. Chapter 13 outlines
Design Anthropological Futures
Announcement: Book Release http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/design-anthropological-futures-9781474280600/ The book Design Anthropological Futures will be published by Bloomsbury in September 2016. It comprises a major overview of the various ways in which design anthropology tackles the tricky issue of futures. Chapter 13 outlines
Long Distance Love
Client: IDEO London As more and more relationships involve living in different places, how can long-distance relationships be supported with new technologies? What comprises a relationship, and how do physical and tangible things help to make it what it is?
Long Distance Love
Client: IDEO London As more and more relationships involve living in different places, how can long-distance relationships be supported with new technologies? What comprises a relationship, and how do physical and tangible things help to make it what it is?
Fixing in the Community
Client: The Restart Project What do Making and Repair activities actually achieve, in social and community terms? Can fixing material things have a social impact, or achieve other kinds of transformation? Fixing Video The Restart Project is a social enterprise
Fixing in the Community
Client: The Restart Project What do Making and Repair activities actually achieve, in social and community terms? Can fixing material things have a social impact, or achieve other kinds of transformation? Fixing Video The Restart Project is a social enterprise
Move It: Physical Activity Among University Students
Client: The Young Foundation. What makes you move? What motivates your body to be physically active, and what prevents you? On behalf of the Young Foundation we have been working to gain insight into the physical activity habits of UCL’s
Move It: Physical Activity Among University Students
Client: The Young Foundation. What makes you move? What motivates your body to be physically active, and what prevents you? On behalf of the Young Foundation we have been working to gain insight into the physical activity habits of UCL’s
The Secret Life of Things
Client: Great Recovery Project. “Toothbrush”- a video. The Great Recovery (GR) promotes a more sustainable, circular economy of materials through design work. We set out to help the project understand what the significant considerations are in redesigning domestic objects to
The Secret Life of Things
Client: Great Recovery Project. “Toothbrush”- a video. The Great Recovery (GR) promotes a more sustainable, circular economy of materials through design work. We set out to help the project understand what the significant considerations are in redesigning domestic objects to
Design Brief Competitions
Collaborator: RSA (Royal Society of Arts) Student Design Awards Team The Royal Society of Arts runs the pre-eminent design competition for student designers in the UK, and increasingly internationally. Their design brief competitions bring together the organisations and companies in
Design Brief Competitions
Collaborator: RSA (Royal Society of Arts) Student Design Awards Team The Royal Society of Arts runs the pre-eminent design competition for student designers in the UK, and increasingly internationally. Their design brief competitions bring together the organisations and companies in
Domestic Cosmologies of Materials and Disposal
Client: The Great Recovery Project By: Alison Violet-Mount, Emily (Chenyi) Cai, Lulu Chen, Xian Chen, Foong Wai Ng Summer 2012 This work aimed to assist the Great Recovery Project in their work on circular, sustainable economies of materials, by exploring
Domestic Cosmologies of Materials and Disposal
Client: The Great Recovery Project By: Alison Violet-Mount, Emily (Chenyi) Cai, Lulu Chen, Xian Chen, Foong Wai Ng Summer 2012 This work aimed to assist the Great Recovery Project in their work on circular, sustainable economies of materials, by exploring
Studio of Material Life 