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daytona session 2
The 12th of February Daytona Session Vol 2 will take place at Rival. I think everyone is welcome, but hurry, it is soon fully booked. Read my guest blog here.
the essence of “time” and “place”
When doing ethnographic fieldwork the understanding of time and place is one of the most essential tools for a cultural analysis. I think it was Stuart Hall, and probably a whole bunch of other cultural theorists, who said that everything that people say is contextual and therefore positioned. So… in order to fully understand a…
being in the known with the consumers
Young consumers are extremely adaptive in their behaviour. They listen to their surroundings, social networks, media, celebrities ect, and learn how to consume. What other say is authentic and real is perceived as authentic. It is the social construction of real that is incorporated in their identity and their actions. I never read the newspapers…
the secret cook is everywhere
I was on an airplane browsing through a recent Inculture report when a curious/friendly co passenger leaned over my shoulder and asked: “Do you work with ecological food?” The report-title included the term “ecological” so the question wasn’t too far-fetched. I found myself nodding, not in the mood to explain anthropology (hmm) whereupon he started…
the scary world of different business cultures
Overheard at the plane. Two Swedish engineers are talking. – Now we’ll start to work in Russia, that will be… – Oh, their business culture is totally different, strange morale at work… drink vodka to lunch… – It will be much worse than England… – Oh yes. – Sometimes it’s fun with new markets but…
a new world of tranquillity
I went to London to plan a project. ”Let’s meet at The Goring Hotel”, our English associate said, ”it’s nice and cosy”. It was really nice and cosy. But at the table a little note was placed with a quotation on one side: To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of…
consumers’ relation to ecological food
Of all the studies we have done I have never been so puzzled by the one that examined the question above. Food is a cultural and contextual matter and when you have the luxury of making choices on what to eat, “good food” is one of the most flexible, negotiable and unfixed phenomenon we ever…
getting tired of blogging and texting
It is the technical skill in using that generally differentiates the youth’s lives from the adults. Especially in “online life,” where daily use of communication activities are clearly differentiated between the younger and the older. Instant texting, chatting, blogging, communities, are something young people associate with youth. When one is adult one will hopefully have…
konsumentnära varumärkesutveckling*
* This one in Swedish Läste i Svenskan idag en liten text om ”så blir året för reklam”. Där fanns bland annat följande med: Kunden i fokus. Med tunnare plånböcker blir konsumenterna mer nogräknade i sina val, för att kunna tillgodose kundens behov blir det ännu viktigare att känna sin kund. Starka kundrelationer bygger lojalitet,…
how to get rid of the mountain of waste?
A friend of mine, Kristina Börjesson, has focused her research on affective sustainability, and how the notion of this can help designers to create more sustainable things. ”If designers are reactive: always try to make their design catch up with changing ways of living, what they design risks having a short life. It will feel…
the ”private” in life
Christmas time is time to wait. Historian Wolfgang Schivelbush shows in a study of rail travel history how train travel meant that passengers were forced to share cramped spaces with strangers for long periods of time. Here the newspaper came to serve as an excellent means to create ”semi-private” rooms in public. The same applies…
how to know what you didn’t know you knew – and how do you know when you know that what you knew was what you wanted to know?
Crazy, but very relevant. You see, we’ve been doing fieldwork for Vägverket focusing on getting a holistic view of the total experience of driving in relation to road quality. When I was presenting the study yesterday, one of the Research Analysist said: “It is so weird. I have been analyzing details within this field for…
