Category Socio-cultural change

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

Architecture & Urban space, 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, User research

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

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

Health, Identity / Privacy, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

Covid-19 and Social Innovation: Contactless sociability and hybrid communities of place

While some optimists think there will be a lasting positive change in our well-being model, with the quality of relationships and common goods at its centre, Manzini argues that things are not necessary going in that direction. A confrontation is required.

Experientia
13 Apr 2020

Art, Cities & Infrastructure, Culture, Foresight, Health, Scenarios, Service design, Socio-cultural change

Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 4

Fourth (and particularly rich) edition of features and articles on what may lie ahead.

Experientia
10 Apr 2020

Creativity, Culture, Socio-cultural change, Sustainability

[Paper] The Imaginary Crisis

As the Covid-19 crisis hopefully comes slowly under control, we ought to attend to a very different kind of crisis, and one which is scarcely visible: the deteriorating state of our shared social imagination.

Experientia
9 Apr 2020

Foresight, Health, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change

Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 3

Third edition of features and articles on what may lie ahead. Four in English, three in Italian.

Experientia
8 Apr 2020

Health, Narration, Socio-cultural change

Covid-19 storytelling platforms

Two new initiatives - one from the US and one from Utrecht (NL)

Experientia
3 Apr 2020

Foresight, Health, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change

Four possible scenarios of how the corona crisis can transform the world

How will the pandemic change the way we live and do business? In this whitepaper the Zukunftsinstitut describes four possible scenarios of how the corona crisis can transform the world.

Experientia
25 Mar 2020

Foresight, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change

Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 2

Here are some more features and articles on what may lie ahead.

Experientia
23 Mar 2020

Foresight, Scenarios, Socio-cultural change

Immaginare il mondo dopo il coronavirus

L'idea di un "ritorno alla normalità non sembra più sostenibile. Ci sarà una nuova normalità che per tanti versi è molto diversa dalla vecchia normalità. E le scelte che facciamo ora - in fretta e senza pensarci troppo - avranno un impatto su quel mondo diverso in cui vivremo.

Experientia
20 Mar 2020