Wednesday 2nd October 2019 – Lunchtime Seminar with Ko-Le Chen (videographer/ethnographer based in Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Title: Making research fictions – taking a creative approach to ethnographic accounts in workplace studies
Speaker: Ko-Le Chen (videographer/ethnographer based in Newcastle Upon Tyne)
Date and time: Wednesday 2nd October 2019, 1pm-2pm
Hosted by: Professor Luigina Ciolfi (Sheffield Hallam University)

Abstract
In this seminar, Ko-Le will showcase some of her doctoral research on academic dissemination. Ko-Le took a feminist and practice-based approach to studying a HCI workplace and developed a creative methodology that helped produced a series of creative ethnographic accounts, which she named ‘research fictions’.

Ko-Le will describe her collaborations with colleagues at Open Lab (Newcastle University) and discuss the benefits and challenges of taking a creative approach to ethnography. Ko-Le will also discuss the potentials of adopting creative ethnography in other contexts such as digital heritage, with an example of a new research idea that she is developing that involves a Taoist goddess and GPS.

Biography
Ko-Le is a videographer/ethnographer based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Ko-Le grew up in Taiwan and has spent the last 10 years living and working in the UK. With a background in digital media and theatre, Ko-Le’s research interests often lead her to dwell at the intersection of arts, sociology and HCI. Ko-Le is interested in the ways knowledges are produced and takes a practice-based approach to understanding how people and objects (especially documents) came to be entangled in the process of knowledge production.

1.00PM-2.00PM
WEDNESDAY 02 OCTOBER 2019
CANTOR 9025, CITY CAMPUS, SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY

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