Design Rituals and Performative Ethnography

Halse, Joachim; Clark, Brendon

doi:10.1111/j.1559-8918.2008.tb00101.x

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“…We turned to performative ethnography (Halse and Clark 2008) because of its attempt to shift from a realist notion of people out there to be studied independent of the researcher's agenda, to viewing participants as constantly 'in the making' and emerging just as much out of the researcher and stakeholder agendas as the everyday practices of research participants. We looked at how the artefact combined with our inquiry creates a forum for original social performances.…”

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Becoming materials: material forms and forms of practice

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As a result of development toward 'smart' materials, materials now enable an expanding range of aesthetic expressions and user experiences. These materials are fundamentally temporal in their capacity to assume multiple, discrete states of expression that can be repeatedly and minutely controlled. These materials come to be, or become, only over time and in context-they are becoming materials. Thus, in the development and application of such materials, we must engage more extensively with the experience of materials in practices of design and of use. This paper introduces and discusses the concept of becoming materials-as well as the implications for practice-through a series of examples from our own practice-led research within art, design and architecture. Coming to terms with the implications for material practices of design and of use, we suggest, requires the development of new concepts and methods for doing and studying the design of becoming materials.

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“…Because the social life in participatory arts and creativity area is complex and challenging, methodologies and methods have sought to respond to such complexities, including “creative methods” along with “traditional” research methods. Literatures proposing arts-based research and creative methods are extensive, some examples include “ethnodrama” (Saldaña, 2003, 2005) “performative ethnography” (Halse and Clark, 2008; Alhourani, 2017); “arts-based research” (Kara, 2015); “arts-related research” (Savin-Baden and Wimpenny, 2014); “engaged scholarship approach” (Wells and Nieuwenhuis, 2017) and “engaged research” (Cunliffe and Scaratti, 2017).…”

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Creativity as collaboration

Jaramillo-Vázquez

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations and processes by which creativity is assembled, and how this mode of creativity responds to tensions and difficulties in activities concerning “arts education” and “creativity” in a community arts organisation in Mexico City. It shows how ethnographic research can provide qualitative understanding about “creativity” on the ground, i.e. through people’s participation in ordinary activities and projects in arts organisations. Design/methodology/approach The methodological approach was ethnographic in data collection and analysis. Participant observation was conducted for 11 months (November 2011/October 2012), as well as archival research and photographs. Findings The findings of this research highlight how, in the face of personal difficulties and tensions people respond creatively through collaboration. The former refers to people’s difficulties to gain control over their lives, e.g., finding a stable job. The latter refers to people’s tensions to produce an artistic project, where they negotiate with institutional expectations about the project and their own experiences and reflections. Originality/value While there is an increasing interest of policy makers for fostering “arts education” and “creativity” in an instrumental way, this paper shows how creativity emerges through the intensity of their personal ideas, experiences and solidarity.

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“…In this way, the value of ethnography within a prototype is not just for the researchers, designers, and engineers working through the iterative cycles of testing concepts. Perhaps more significantly, the crafted performance of real patients and in situ staff conducting real work with mock-ups of space, tools, and roles provide the ability for leaders and stakeholder teams to witness first-hand how their systems would come together in the future (Halse and Clark 2008). This helped us to deliver on our goal of shifting previous planning conversations from "subject matter expertise" to observation-based discussions of how patients and staff were responding to proposed solutions in use.…”

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Getting from Vision to Reality: How Ethnography and Prototyping Can Solve Late‐Stage Design Challenges

Sih

Carey

Lin

2018

Ethnographic Praxis

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In 2014, Kaiser Permanente began implementing a next‐generation medical office model that reimagines the outpatient care experience, combining new architecture, workflow, and technology to create a more convenient experience for patients and a connected, efficient experience for staff and care teams. As the first next‐gen facilities were being built, challenges emerged as teams across a variety of disciplines attempted to translate the model's vision into reality. Teams were making design and operational decisions in parallel, without the ability to see how their decisions impacted the overall user experience. To resolve these challenges, our innovation team at Kaiser Permanente used a hybrid make‐and‐observe method of prototyping and ethnography. Employing a co‐creation mindset (Bødker and Grønbaek 1991), we engaged staff and patients to help us bring the future state of these next‐gen clinics to life in a minimally viable way. We created a full‐scale prototype experience at an existing clinic during working hours that included functional proxies of the future space; iterative techniques that simulated automation, i.e., Wizard of Oz‐ing (Kelley 1984); rewritten workflows; and recast staff roles. With this model we were able to mock up the future user experience, test assumptions in the field, surface latent needs, and resolve unanticipated conflicts. This case study provides an example of how ethnography, in combination with working prototypes of the future, can be essential tools for clarifying radical changes to new services. Using these methods, we were able to provide leaders with tangible evidence of why some elements of the initial vision needed to change in order to ensure a better user experience. Here we outline lessons learned and discuss limitations to our approach.

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Design Rituals and Performative Ethnography

Abstract: This paper proposes a course for ethnography in design that

Cited by 10 publications

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Becoming materials: material forms and forms of practice

Becoming materials: material forms and forms of practice

Creativity as collaboration

Getting from Vision to Reality: How Ethnography and Prototyping Can Solve Late‐Stage Design Challenges

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