http://skilfulminds.com/2009/12/02/ethnography-globalization-and-experience-design/ A Weblog for Larry Irons Thu, 10 May 2012 19:15:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://skilfulminds.com/2009/12/02/ethnography-globalization-and-experience-design/#comment-975 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:21:56 +0000 http://skilfulminds.com/?p=2139#comment-975 Very nice points Dwight. Thanks for sharing. Happy holidays, and here’s to a dramatically improved New Year for everyone!!

]]> http://skilfulminds.com/2009/12/02/ethnography-globalization-and-experience-design/#comment-974 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:31:42 +0000 http://skilfulminds.com/?p=2139#comment-974 Interesting post, Larry. I’m reminded of a friend of mine from grad school who studied Japanese and commented any number of times about things like time consciousness and sense data as conveyed in that language. For example, she described Japanese as requiring tenses of adjectives. And that this enabled a highly empathic style of thinking about experience and its qualities; in Japanese poetry, the tenses of white or pink might be used to represent certain emotions associated with experiencing the fleeting beauty of cherry blossoms, as in one example doomed to be but not as yet scattered by the wind. Makes translating Japanese lyric poetry a particularly difficult process for English speakers. But it also suggests why Japanese culture might prize photography the way it does.

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