WORKSHOPS

EPIC 2013 Proceedings, ISBN 978-1-931303-21-7. © 2013 by the American Anthropological Association. Some rights reserved 419

WORKSHOPS CATRIONA MACAULAY, Co-Curator University of Dundee SIMON ROBERTS, Co-Curator ReD Associates

EPIC 2013 features nine handpicked workshops that were designed to provide attendees with fresh skills and perspectives on the art and science of ethnographically informed work. A clutch of workshops will discuss how we train and mobilise as a professional community in- and outside of academia. An- other will discuss how we sell our work (and how it is bought). Other sessions were designed to introduce attendees to new tools that can be used to conduct fieldwork or how to create a digital ecosystem of ideas, information and conversations. Simple, human-scale technologies and cognition came to the fore in workshops designed to teach people how to think with their hands, to command a room with a whiteboard and marker pen or unfold creative thinking processes.

Ethnography + Design Fiction

NICOLAS NOVA The Near Future Laboratory ANAB JAIN Superflux

The workshop will deal with relationship between ethnography and futures research: how can ethnographic theories and field research be relevant for foresight-related activities? What are the opportunities and limits of such endeavours? More specifically, by engaging participants in a series of short activities we will explore how the crafting of design fictions - “the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change” as defined by Bruce Sterling - may benefit from ethnography.