Quartz: An Ethnographer Has A New Explanation For Donald Trump’s Support In Small-Town America
Trump tapped into rural America’s community-first structures and values, as well its individualistic and personal dynamics of everyday social interaction.
Riding with Heidegger: A New Perspective on the Premium Vehicle
How Heidegger’s notion of dwelling helps understand problems with the vehicle space.
What Science Can’t Explain
Advances in neuroscience and fMRI (magnetic resonance imaging) technology are giving researchers an unprecedented look into the chemical and neurological functioning of the brain.
The Complexity Trap
ReD created a short video outlining some of the major findings from our projects with Edison Energy,
Webinar On The New Energy Future - Making Sense Of The Changing Energy Landscape
ReD Associates and Edison Energy spent more than a year meeting with hundreds of people who have a hand in energy management at large companies and organizations conducting what is perhaps the most comprehensive study ever done on the role of energy in large organizations and the challenges and changes in corporate energy management.
MedDevice: Five Keys To Designing Medical Devices For Life Beyond Clinical Trials
More life sciences companies should build their R&D on the unmet needs of patients in real world contexts.
Quartz: How the American middle class lost its taste for mindless consumerism
More and cheaper are no longer better. The middle class is more concerned with quality and experience.
Business Insider: The idea that AI can 'read' the emotions on your face is profoundly flawed
At the heart of affective computing are three misguided ideas about what human emotions are.
Fieldnotes As A Social Practice
Elevating And Innovating Fieldnotes In Applied Ethnography, Using A Collaborative Online Tool As A Case Study. Presented at the EPIC conference 2015 in Sao Paulo.
The Limits of Luxury
As luxury goods become mass produced, people are turning towards unique, non-reproducable experiences to fulfill a desire for the rare.
5 Innovations From Newspaper Publishers
A list of how five newspaper publishers and media companies are innovating to keep the news industry profitable.
Corporate Anthropologists as Trending Trope in Today’s Public Imagination
Anthropologists in popular culture - 6 prominent clichés.
Shifting The Understanding Of A Category In Order To Win It
Through a new understanding of high-value design, Samsung renewed the product design of its TVs and doubled its market share in just a few years.
Great Customer Experiences: Creating A Blueprint For An Improved Customer Experience
Most companies struggle to service their customers in ways that are swift, thoughtful, and consistent.
Kristian Villumsen, Coloplast’s SVP Of Global Marketing, On Innovation In Healthcare
An interview with Kristian Villumsen, a SVP at Coloplast, on how ReD helped the healthcare company innovate.
The Heidegger Sessions
Prof. Taylor Carman of Columbia University gave our staff a course on Heidegger's thinking.
Creating An Innovation Culture
Innovation inside many of these companies is characterized by strong teamwork across disciplines, business units, and professional functions. There is a very widespread idea that innovation is driven by a lonely genius, a specific department, or a very special group of innovation champions, but this does not appear to be the case in these high-performing cultures.
Lufthansa Technik’s Director of Innovation on the Future of Passenger Experiences
We interview Lufthansa’s Andrew Muirhead to talk about innovation in airlines and what flights will be like in the future.
CMO.com: How Brands Can Identify The Moments That Matter Most To Customers
In our current era of real-time marketing, how can brands identify the moments that matter most for their customers?