Category Archives: Events
Upcoming Exhibition Opening: Thursday, April 9th, 5-7 pm
Life Behind the Ride: Resilience and Risk in Indonesia’s on-demand economy explores how digital platforms like Gojek have transformed Indonesia’s urban transport landscape, displacing traditional motorcycle taxis and reshaping the city’s social and economic map. The rise of gig work is reshaping urban life—altering economic opportunities, social networks, and city planning. Since ride-hailing apps gained … Continue reading
Upcoming Exhibition Opening: Thursday, April 9th, 5-7 pm
Life Behind the Ride: Resilience and Risk in Indonesia’s on-demand economy explores how digital platforms like Gojek have transformed Indonesia’s urban transport landscape, displacing traditional motorcycle taxis and reshaping the city’s social and economic map. The rise of gig work is reshaping urban life—altering economic opportunities, social networks, and city planning. Since ride-hailing apps gained … Continue reading
Upcoming Talk: Anthropologists in Human-Centered Design
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Upcoming Talk: Anthropologists in Human-Centered Design
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An Ethnographic Sensibility in Consulting
By Johana Pokorney Thursday, January 29th, 2026, 5:00 – 6:00pm Room 330 – Ethnography Lab Boardroom 19 Ursula Franklin Street This session examines how skills and sensibilities honed through ethnographic research can be translated into qualitative research consulting projects and settings–and sometimes where they fail. Given that today many other professionals draw on similar methods, … Continue reading
Where is Arsenali Hill? Wrong Side of the Tracks in a Garden City
Please join us at the Ethnography Lab on Friday, December 5th, 5-6 pm, for a presentation of a work in progress by Eugene Slonimerov. 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, Ontario. Room 330 or online. The ongoing research project takes the site of the former Russian military installation in Tbilisi, Georgia as a non-human subject, a … Continue reading
Ethnography in the Private Sector Speaker Series
In Our Grandparents’ Kitchens: A Film Screening and Discussion of Multimodal Ethnographic Methods
Djuna Nagasaki Friday, Nov 13th, 5:00 – 6:00 pm. Ethnography Lab Boardroom, room 330. Our Grandparents’ Kitchens is an ethnographic film that seeks to address the question; What does it mean to be Japanese Canadian? By highlighting the voices of young Japanese Canadians as they work to reconnect with culture and a sense of community, … Continue reading
Ethnographic and Experience Thinking in UX Industry
By Jessika Tremblay and Lotte van Gelderen from Akendi Nov 13th, 2025, 5:00pm – 6:00pmEthnography Lab Boardroom, rm 330 Where do Ethnographic Thinking (Hasbrouck 2017) and Experience Thinking (Van Gelderen 2018) overlap, and how do they diverge from Design Thinking? This session explores the intersections of these frameworks through the lens of UX research, highlighting … Continue reading
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