Using Your Feet

Meetings are a central part of how we work as commercial ethnographers. We meet with our clients to plan our projects and share our findings. We meet with our informants to explore and understand their worlds. However the cultures and practices that inform meeting behaviour can be antithetical to our goals as researchers through their reinforcement of pre‐set patterns of thinking and being. In this presentation I explore how we can challenge the affordances imposed by meeting culture. I draw on my experiences founding a global volunteer network and reframing meeting contexts for corporate clients to challenge conventions and identify fresh opportunities for ethnographic praxis

Affordance · Cognitive reframing · Ethnography · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Praxis · Presentation (obstetrics · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Computer Science · Engineering · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Medicine · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology