Shanghai

Icons of Surgery

Shanghai: doctor's surgery
29 Dec 2011

In: Today's Office
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Connections. Connectors.

18 Dec 2011



A critical part of any ethnographic/design research project is recruiting the right participants for the study – they are the foundation on which the research …
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Gouged Eyes

20 Nov 2011

In: Street Hacks
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Camera removed from this Shanghai ATM machine. Our relationship with sensors? The obviousness of what is being sensed an how? The ease at which sensors can be …
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In Store Ads

20 Nov 2011

In: Cultural Norms
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Shanghai Tesco Metro in-store advertising – another western brand becoming more of a neighbourhood feature. Persuading local Chinese from the neighbourhood to shop their groceries …
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Energy Norms

19 Nov 2011

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Bold

14 Nov 2011



How to stand out from the crowd. Whether or not they all belong to the same person, is unknown. Car culture is still relatively immature …
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Lounger, Pegs

14 Nov 2011

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In apartment dense Shanghai a lounger on the street, capped with a peg is not for lounging, but for airing mattresses.
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Power Plays

31 Oct 2011



It’s always interesting to watch power plays in action – people who want to communicate their assumed authority over an individual or group. You can …
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It’s Not Your Face, It’s Ours

30 Oct 2011



After a few days in NYC back in China. One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that I coming back to is near-time facial …
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Chinese Bandit Translation Teams

25 Sep 2011



Popular content is available in China, with Chinese subtitles within 8 hours of being broadcast almost anywhere in the world – a short presentation, co-authored …
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