Ethnographies of Unimagined Possibilities: Toward a Conversational Paradigm for Human-Centered Design Research

Ozge Merzali Celikoglu is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Design at Istanbul Technical University. Her research is primarily concerned with meaning and interpretation— in particular, how ethnography informs design within the broader context of language and discourse.

Klaus Krippendorff was a graduate from the Ulm School of Design and the Gregory Bateson Professor Emeritus for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture at The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Over a hundred of his publications contributed to communication theory, cybernetics, social science methodology, and design. He authored several books, among them Content Analysis: An Introduction to its Methodology; On Communicating, Otherness, Meaning, and Information; and The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design. He critically explored how realities are socially constructed in discourse by design and through actions, with an emphasis on emancipation from burdensome conceptions of reality.