All Outputs (2)

The future as a design problem (2016)
Journal Article
Reeves, S., Goulden, M., & Dingwall, R. (2016). The future as a design problem. Design Issues, 32(3), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00395

An often unacknowledged yet foundational problem for design is how ‘futures‘ are recruited for design practice. This problem saturates considerations of what could or should be designed. We distinguish two intertwined approaches to this: ‘pragmatic p... Read More about The future as a design problem.

Wild interdisciplinarity: ethnography and computer science (2016)
Journal Article
Goulden, M., Greiffenhagen, C., Crowcroft, J., McAuley, D., Mortier, R., Radenkovic, M., & Sathiaseelan, A. (in press). Wild interdisciplinarity: ethnography and computer science. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2016.1152022

Drawing on the experiences of a novel collaborative project between sociologists and computer scientists, this paper identifies a set of challenges for fieldwork that are generated by this wild interdisciplinarity. Public Access Wi-Fi Service was a p... Read More about Wild interdisciplinarity: ethnography and computer science.