EPIC2008 Panel: Directors of the Future

This panel aims to challenge participants' ideas about the future of ethnographic praxis in industry.  Working with actors from the Dacapo Theatre our panelist will "direct" scenarios of future ethnographic praxis, and then use the scenarios to discuss obstacles for the development of our field.

Moderators: Jacob Buur, SPIRE, University of Southern Denmark; Luis Arnal, in/situm

Panelists: Nina Wakeford, Goldsmiths, University of London; ken anderson, Intel; Michael Winnick, gravitytank

About Dacapo: Based originally in a forum theatre tradition, Dacapo has 15 years of experience working with organizational change in businesses and public organizations, and has developed theatre into a framework for learning and collaborative engagement.  In recent years, Dacapo has engaged in user-driven innovation in, for example, the health sector, acting out 'users' in real life situations to encourage industrialists to establish empathy and discuss consequences of technology interventions.  Dacapo is a partner in the new Danish strategic research centre SPIRE on participatory innovation.