Person
Hamid van Koten
Essay
Beneficial appropriation and corporate exploitation: Exploring the use of ethnographic methods in art, craft and design
Recently there has been a move towards incorporating ethnographic practices into the research phase of the design process. Groundbreaking work has been done by design consultancies like IDEO (2001), and by trend-predictors such as The Future Laboratory. Large corporations (BMW, Philips and Mark & Spencer) employ ethnographic methods to gather data on the use of...