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The future of anthropology in industry?

Two panel sessions during the EPIC 2008 conference in Copenhagen offered reflections on the positions we have in companies as consultants or employees. How is our work seen and understood?

EPIC company visits in Copenhagen

I visited Anthropogerne.com and ReD during the EPIC company visits. There were a total of about 8 companies participating in this. Great to see Copenhagen has this many entrepreneurs in some sort of design ethnography.

EPIC 2008 morning day 2, on video

During the conference I attended several presentations on using video in the field. Jonathan Bean, an architect, did research on 'hygge' in Danish homes. Hygge is something beyond cosy and comfortable,

EPIC 2008 day 1

Some of the paper presentations in the morning session of the conference were a bit disappointing. Despite the good stories they had about the people and practices that were the topic of their research, the insights they took from this were often quite thin.

Keynote Christina Garsten EPIC2008

I, Bas, am at EPIC 2008 for the coming three days, and will be blogging now and then from the conference floor. Enjoy and feel free to comment!

Service Design Lab at PICNIC08

STBY initiated the first activity of Service Design Netwerk Nederland during PICNIC08, the international crossmedia conference in Amsterdam, and now also New…

Projectors hanging around and gossiping

I came across this group of overhead projectors while visiting the University of Liverpool for the Human-Computer Interaction conference in September. It struck…

Service Design Netwerk Nederland

Together with some other Service Design pioneers in The Netherlands*, we have this summer initiated the Service Design network Netherlands. Apart from being an…

New office in London

We have recently moved to a new office space in London. We really wanted some more space, and so did Radarstation. And since we are working together...

New office in Amsterdam

This summer we have moved into a new office in Amsterdam. The office at the Brouwersgracht was getting a bit too small for all the projects and meetings we are involved…

Leiden University

To prepare a successful open day event for future students, the University of Leiden wanted to explore the expectations and information needs of high school students. Together with three young researchers from Spunk//STBY we interviewed 15 students in depth about the way they orientate themselves on their future studies and careers.