SoiferI VtP Annotation: Ethnography Studio

Contributors

Contributed date

January 22, 2020 - 9:49pm

Critical Commentary

"The Ethnography Studio brings together ethnographers from a broad array of disciplines and approaches–from arts to engineering, anthropology to education, computer science to sociology–who are experimenting with ways of understanding complex social phenomena, of small and large scales, while embracing the uncertainty and ambiguities that ethnographic research affords for creative thinking. Acknowledging the usefulness and limits of research design and well established data collection techniques, the Studio takes advantage of a broad array of methodologies and theoretical approaches and values diversity and contradiction rather than cohesiveness and convergence. Members of the studio work through their project ideas, research design, and writing in a space where peer support and learning is imagined as asking each other hard questions from a collaborative and collegial standpoint."

I participated in the Ethnography Studio while attending Rice University as an undergraduate student, and was tasked with developing various ways to represent my topic visually and materially. The final project consisted of developing a final micro installation and displaying it in the department. I think it would be interesting to explore the possibility of developing micro installations that can be displayed outside the confines of a 2D depiction hanging on the wall, other forms of physical experimentation that engage the senses while simultaneously addressing the questions we seek to answer regarding toxicity and toxic places.

Source

Ballestero, Andrea. "Ethnography Studio Info Video." Rice University Department of Anthropologyhttps://ethnographystudio.org/.

Group Audience

  • - Private group -

Cite as

Anonymous, "SoiferI VtP Annotation: Ethnography Studio", contributed by Isabelle Soifer, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 22 January 2020, accessed 28 March 2024. http://centerforethnography.org/content/soiferi-vtp-annotation-ethnography-studio