Simon Lex: Business and Organizational Anthropologist: on the design of social practice imaginaries

The Human Show: Innovation through Social Science

In today’s episode we explore together with Simon the topic of designing applied anthropology courses and industry/academia collaboration. What are the challenges when designing such courses? How does Simon avoid dilemmas an anthropologist might face working with the corporate world and what methods and principles does he embrace to ensure that all parties involved benefit from the applied research? He tells about projects of productive collaboration in which the interlocutors are equal partners throughout the fieldwork and after. Lastly, Simon shares what he believes to be the conditions needed to create spaces where transdisciplinary community can the achieve best results.

Mentioned in the podcast:

University of Copenhagen, Department of Anthropology, https://anthropology.ku.dk/dep/

Smart Cities Accelerator (Co-Pi), https://smartcitiesaccelerator.eu
COMPASS (Collaborative Movements and Pathways to Sustainable Societies), http://compass.ku.dk