Sensory Ethnography Lab is a tiny think tank at Here & Now which offers ethnographic research insights for design research, social innovation, service design and strategic communication. Our research has a focus on sensory, somatic and kinetic aspects of human experience/attention. We serve research and consultancy agencies, as well as exceptional enterprises.

Selected previous research programs:

  • Anthropology of Minimal Aesthetics (for MUJI)

  • Anthropology of Yoga Teacher Trainings in China (for LULULEMON)

  • Anthropology of Body: ethnography of body modification practices among young Chinese (for Reflection Consultancy)

  • Anthropology of Aging in Shanghai (For Reflection consulting agency)

  • Anthropology of transport: ethnographic research on the usage of electric vehicles for the elderly

  • Anthropology of Education: ethnography of teenager's everyday experience in China second tier cities.

  • Ethnography of Chinese Muslim family businesses, for CASS (Chinese academy of social science)

  • Anthropology of the first sight: the Lijiang city; for CASS (Cinese Academy of Social Science)

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