Reflecting on EPIC 2014

Simon Roberts – now of Stripe Partners – was the organizer of last year’s EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) in London. He did a truly excellent job. This year he was at EPIC in New York, not as an organiser any longer, but as an engaged participant. Here are his thoughts on how it went, grouped into seven headings:
1. Intangible and tangible value
2. The temporality of ethnographic practice
3. Short and very sweet
4. Speaking the language of business
5. The value of the humanities
6. Envisaging and materialising the future
7. We should not divorce design