The fourth annual international Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference 2008 will take place at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark from October 25 – 18, 2008.
Praticipants will explore the paradoxes and practices of (In)Visibility and bring to life the concepts, theories, plans, worries, approaches and ideas that can expand and advance the practices of ethnographic work in and of industry.
EPIC is the premier international forum bringing together artists, computer scientists, designers, social scientists, marketers, academics and advertisers to discuss recent developments and future advances around ethnographic praxis. It aims to promote the integration of social and cultural perspectives, theories and method into business practice.
Questions that will be explored during this year’s conference:
- What important issues can ethnograpy in industry shed light on?
- Are some ideas and things better left invisible?
- How do we work with things which are themselves essentially invisible?
- In what ways are we (in)visible as ethnographic practitioners in industry? In sites of scholarly production? What are ways of making the value of ethnographic work more visible to organizations, participants and stakeholders, and academic and other intellectual communities?
- Is the invisibility of theory in much ethnographic work in industry a problem, a virtue, or both?
- What invisible traces do we leave in industry?
- What do different representational practices make visible, what do they obscure, and how do other senses come into play?
- Does, and how does, ethnography’s bias for observation work to balance other forms of understanding in the context of industry?

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