We have a new blog URL: check it out

  Hi there Couture blog followers, we have a brand new blog and URL address. Check it out! We guess everyone will be automatically redirect to the new RSS, but in case of… Continue reading →

Objects in museums, products in shops: people, memories and meaning

document.location = ‘http://decodedisrupt.com/’ My profession takes place amongst museum objects: working on inventory, production of content and catalogues for exhibitions and communicating with the public. And in each of these tasks, Andy Warhol’s… Continue reading →

Google Consumer Surveys: a new game change from the information giant?

Google launched yet another of its products, and this time its no April Fools trick. “What is unequivocal is that there is now a new major (to put it lightly) competitor within the… Continue reading →

Face recognition and restricting ‘consumers’ (but what about Blade Runner?)

A few weeks ago, an NGO picked-up a face-recognition system based on technology to implant their advertising campaign on the streets of London. Their objective in using this technology was to restrict target… Continue reading →

Being Human 2012

“We live at the dawn of a scientific revolution. Every day brings new findings from a broad range of disciplines – behavioral economics, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, social anthropology, philosophy – that promise… Continue reading →

Thinking design thinking

As a collaborative practice that combines style of thinking, qualitative research methods, creative approach and process methods in the way a problem can be handled, Couture always has its eyes wide open to… Continue reading →

About Showrooming

If there is one name an ethnographically-based consultancy should know about is Genevieve Bell. Anthropologist, Intel Fellow, Director of User Experience at Intel, Genevieve Bell is one of the main reasons why ethnography… Continue reading →

It smells like video.

Here at Couture we have been busy, not only with our clients but also with a more experimental project. In partnership with PÉPOSTO, we have been preparing a small video piece on social dynamics,… Continue reading →

Cowbird Curiosities

We have been following Jonathan Harris’ work for a while now and were particularly interested in Cowbird, a major endeavour that Jonathan recently launched. This new line of participatory journalism/come storytelling intrigued us, so we… Continue reading →

New Year, new opportunities: Brazil overview

Everybody says that Brazil is a country full of opportunities. That’s right, but it doesn’t mean that you will just arrive and start earning money: this is not a weak colony anymore, indeed.… Continue reading →