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What makes us giddy?
Gossip and Gizmos Photo by Ed Yourdon
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What enamours us?
The epic and the everyday. Photo of Sinterklaas Parade, Amstelveen
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What do we uncover?
A unit of information and universal truths. Photo by Bill Brine
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What makes us indispensable?
We dare to imagine. Photo by Andrew Magill
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...RE-SEARCH
Question the way you look at your problem. Photo by Jose Venegas
Artefact: A Company and A Community
a research consulting firm that uses anthropology to troubleshoot management and operational problems
Who We Are
Artefact is the British spelling of artifact, the tangible and intangible aspect of culture. As a company, we discover, develop, and disseminate an understanding of artefactual knowledge to assist individuals, institutions, and industries succeed in their goals. Through research, consultation, and creation of solutions, products, and services, we want to change the world, and our community of experts and partners are ready to serve you. Visit our About section to learn more about what we believe in.
Clients & Partners
Our doors are open to individuals, institutions, and industries whose aim is to improve their living and working conditions. We serve clients from the average consumer to the corporation, from the private to the public sector, including health clinics, retail establishments, and the digital world. In a true spirit of shared knowledge, we seek collaboration with scientists, historians, designers, engineers, architects, artists, technology personnel, and bureaucrats.
Recent Mentifacts
Training Ethnography for Engineers: Some Reflections
(Photo by D. Sharon Pruitt) Increasingly, one of the jobs open to anthropologists in the mainstream is in the area of training. There is a demand in different industries of the advantages of the ethnographic method. Brigitte Jordan (2011) sees this process as the future of ethnographic practice wherein techniques are becoming separated and commodified and sold to third parties. Arguments whether this is positive or negative for the discipline of anthropology are a subject for a different article. As an occasional consultant to the Care@Home project, I was asked to teach lead design engineers...
Work and Love in Chinese Life
"The West has used the capacity to love as the symbolic...
International Documentary Film Festival - They Call It Myanmar - Lifting the Curtain
I had the opportunity to participate at the famous...
Good Design: Sidewalk Ashtray
I came across this ingenious ashtray for the sidewalk...