“If you’re not there in person, you won’t win work.” As we all grapple with the implications of drastically changed business travel conditions - how do we reconcile ‘being there’ and winning the trust of clients, with remote working?
All in Publications
Contesting the Box: Museums and Repatriation (Book chapter)
This book chapter, part of an edited volume on ‘boxes in action’ explores the museum as a ‘box’. I tell the story of how one particular museum gradually relinquished its functions as a container of antiquities and came to be “unboxed” in many ways.
Beyond human-centred design
Is human-centred design sustainable and indeed ethical? In this article I suggest that we need to move beyond our preoccupation with human centricity and start designing for a world at large.
Claro! Four ways we can help you drive business success
In this blogpost, I reflect upon who we are and what we do at Claro Partners. I touch upon the four ways that we apply our uniquely human-centred approach to understanding human needs in order to create business value
An ethnography of NGO practice in India: Utopias of development (Book)
Through a 15 month ethnographic study of an NGO in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success.
An award controversy: Anthropology, architecture, and the robustness of knowledge
This article draws upon an anthropology of architecture as ‘process’ to explore the controversy involved in a disputed architectural award presented to an NGO in India.
The materiality of knowledge production
This paper is based upon fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork within an NGO in Rajasthan, India and looks at the different kinds of knowledges generated in an NGO solar workshop.
Barefoot Engineers: the non-mobility of knowledge in a knowledge transfer project
This paper argues that knowledge is created and sustained dynamically through an on-going alignment of objects and symbols, gestures and bodies, identities and environment.