The RUSTlab experiments with re-tooling social science methods to engage well with changing, distributed and heterogeneous socio-technical worlds. Among the well-known and innovative methods, we re-set re-tool, and mix in-depth observations, digital methods, ko-laborationparticipation, walkthroughs, storytelling, visualizations, data storiesscapes, data walks, data journeys, mappings, games, scenarios, emic comparisons, object ethnographies, etc.
We aim to update ethnography for rusty times and technological entanglements: collaboratively, engaging and participatory.
We are thinking about accessing and reusing ethnographic data while staying accountable to our study participants and fields.
Our activitiesformats include: