Debora Lanzeni

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What happens to work when robots, automation and digital tools reshape industries overnight? This book explores how work-life is transformed across sectors like construction, healthcare and retail from the perspective of the workers themselves. Based on five years of international research spanning Norway and Australia, the book offers real-world case studies that illuminate the challenges, possibilities and future anticipations faced by workers navigating automation. It provides clear, accessible insights into one of today’s most urgent social transformations. This fascinating book is essential reading for students, scholars, professionals and anyone curious about the future of work.

This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice and engagement.The authors, specialising in design ethnography across the fields of anthropology, sociology, human geography, pedagogy and design research, draw on their extensive international experience of collaborating with engineers, designers, creative practitioners and specialists from other fields. They call for, and demonstrate the benefits of, ethnographic and conceptual attention to design as part of our personal and public everyday lives, society, institutions and activism. Design Ethnography is essential reading for researchers, scholars and students seeking to reshape the way we research, live and design ethically and responsibly into yet unknown futures.

This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice and engagement.The authors, specialising in design ethnography across the fields of anthropology, sociology, human geography, pedagogy and design research, draw on their extensive international experience of collaborating with engineers, designers, creative practitioners and specialists from other fields. They call for, and demonstrate the benefits of, ethnographic and conceptual attention to design as part of our personal and public everyday lives, society, institutions and activism. Design Ethnography is essential reading for researchers, scholars and students seeking to reshape the way we research, live and design ethically and responsibly into yet unknown futures.