Category Culture

Book, Business, Culture, Industry (in general), Innovation, Internet of Things

[Book] Creating a Culture of Innovation

Innovation can only occur in the right environment. While organizations can attempt to hire for innovation, there is little that can blossom in a restrictive and discouraging physical setting - even if the space holds the most creative and vibrant thinkers.

Experientia
29 Dec 2020

ArchitectureUrbanism, Conference, Ethnography, Europe, Experientia, Participation, Socio-cultural change, Turin

Experientia speaks at EFUS webinar on insecurity at night

On 24 November Elena Guidorzi, research unit coordinator of Experientia, will speak at the EFUS web conference entitled "Reducing and preventing the feeling of insecurity at night", highlighting her experience coordinating the ToNite project.

Experientia
19 Nov 2020

ArchitectureUrbanism, Research, Socio-cultural change

The Big Home Reboot: IKEA’s Life at Home Report 2020

IKEA just launched its seventh Life at Home Report, exploring how people have grown closer to their homes in this extraordinary year

Experientia
19 Oct 2020

Devices, Socio-cultural change, Technology (general)

How constant tech is breaking our brains

Fast Company spoke with tech pioneer Jaron Lanier, Microsoft CVP Emma Williams and Stanford professor Jeremy Bailenson.

Experientia
11 Oct 2020

ArchitectureUrbanism, Cities & Infrastructure, Innovation, Scenarios, Service design, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Essay] Helsinki Design Lab ten years later

A survey of Helsinki Design Lab's activities 2008-2013, with reflections on the three "bets" that the Lab made and their relevance today.

Experientia
30 Sep 2020

Behavioral sciences, Cities & Infrastructure, Participation, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Paper] Active consumer participation in smart energy systems

Designing energy services with a human-centered approach will allow us to rely on consumers not only as executors of changes in energy consumption, but also as providers of data.

Experientia
30 Sep 2020

Behavioral sciences, Book, Culture, Ethnography, Europe, Socio-cultural change

[Book] The Weirdest People in the World

Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history.

Experientia
13 Sep 2020

Book, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability, Technology (general)

[Book] Slow computing

Drawing on the ideas of the "slow movement", Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.

Experientia
10 Sep 2020

AI, Europe, Socio-cultural change

[Book] Possibilities and challenges of AI for work and society

Artificial Intelligence is permeating a wide range of areas and it is bound to transform work and society. This dossier asks what needs to be done politically in order to shape this transformation for the sake of the common good.

Experientia
4 Sep 2020

Behavioral sciences, Socio-cultural change

Four priorities from the social changes for shaping the post-pandemic world

The social sciences don't produce much in the way of patentable widgets or, indeed, life-saving vaccines. However, the analysis and insights they generate can and do underpin better-evidenced decisions and help guide and target insights from the "natural" sciences.

Experientia
26 Aug 2020

Design (general), Ethnography, Service design, Socio-cultural change

Three reports to helps us address online manipulation

Research has gradually revealed the extent to which online manipulation has been weaponised to affect societies in almost every important way that society works. Yet while almost everyone is touched in one way or another by online manipulation, only a tiny part of society has generally been involved in confronting it.

Experientia
23 Aug 2020

Book, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Book] Life After COVID-19: The Other Side of Crisis

Almost every aspect of society will change after the pandemic, but if we learn lessons then life can be better. Featuring expert authors from across academia and civil society, this book offers ideas that might put us on alternative paths for positive social change.

Experientia
17 Aug 2020

ArchitectureUrbanism, Design (general), Scenarios, Socio-cultural change

Visions of the post-pandemic home

Vitra, the German manufacturing company, published this week a "set of hypotheses" on the future of the home, as living spaces are pushed to the limits.

Experientia
17 Aug 2020

Health, Italy, Socio-cultural change, UserResearch

Behavioral Covid-19 research in Italy

The Milan-based consumer and healthÂ research center EngageMindsÂ HUB of the UniversitÃ Cattolica has done some timely research on how Covid-19 has influenced the behavior of Italians. The reports are all in Italian, so you should use a translation engine if you want to read them in full. Meanwhile here is a summary.

Experientia
16 Jul 2020

Book, Devices, Ethnography, Socio-cultural change

[Book] Smartphones: Une enquête anthropologique

Sur la base d'une enquête de terrain menée à Genève, Los Angeles et Tokyo, cet ouvrage aborde la dimension proprement anthropologique du smartphone.

Experientia
11 Jun 2020

Book, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Book] Slowdown

Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all steadily declined over the last few generations.

Experientia
6 Jun 2020

ArchitectureUrbanism, Participation, Sustainability

Smart city visions and human rights

Without consideration for all humans inhabiting cities, smart city and technological approaches have the potential to exacerbate socio-economic divisions, corporate dominance, and top-down governance.

Experientia
3 Jun 2020

Culture, Ethnography

The changing role of home during crisis

In the first Constellation of Future Matters, the team of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab of Monash University considers various aspects, from different perspectives, of the home during crisis.

Experientia
29 May 2020

Foresight, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Covid-19, changing social practices and the transition to sustainable production and consumption

Covid-19, changing social practices and the transition to sustainable production and consumptionby Boons, F., Browne, A., Burgess, M., Ehgartner, U., Hirth, S., Hodson, M., Holmes, H.,Hoolohan, C., MacGregor, S., McMeekin, A., Mylan, J. Oncini, F., Paterson, M., RÃ¶dl, M.,Sharmina, M.,…

Experientia
26 May 2020

Cities & Infrastructure, Foresight, Retail, Socio-cultural change

Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 5

Fifth edition of features and articles on what may lie ahead.

Experientia
29 Apr 2020

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