Design Ethnography Research Group

building participant structures that transform

The core mission of the Design Ethnography Research Group (DERG) is to identify, understand, and transform through design work the multiple activities, places, and social groups (socio-technical arrangements) with which children participate, and to understand what participation in those various socio-technical arrangements means to them. More directly, we are interested in how participation with these socio-technical arrangements transact with (mutually constitute) the core components of what we refer to as a Culture of Enrichment (CoE)so that we can more effectively facilitate the development of these in children. At its core, the DERG is interested in designing culture.