This page was last updated on 17 August 2024.

In an effort to streamline administration across our volunteer group, we have created a simple registration form which you can use to join the listserv, Slack, or both. You can find that here. The form helps manage incoming requests, and it also keeps the list quality high by reducing spam and keep advertising messages to a minimum.

Please keep in mind that these communities are volunteer-run, so it may take a week or two to get you added. If you really get stuck or you haven’t heard from us and you have access questions, you can reach me at natalie at anthrodesign dot com.

Listserv

To participate once subscribed, use the email address anthrodesign at groups dot io to send a message to the group. You can visit https://groups.io/g/anthrodesign/topics to edit your membership, find further instructions, or view the members and archives of earlier postings. You will need to create a groups.io account to access the site.

Slack

The EPIC, anthrodesign, and Ethnography Matters teams have created a shared Slack community to facilitate conversations about ​ethnographic methods. We hope this will enable our overlapping communities to have conversations that extend beyond our own organizations and mailing lists. We are an interdisciplinary group, so you don’t need to have formal training in anthropology or ethnographic methods to participate. However, please do read our Slack guidelines before posting.

Mentoring

We are planning a collaboration with ADP List to give members the opportunity to find each other for mentoring or being mentored. More on that soon.

Other ways to engage

In the past we experimented with groups on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Those are no longer active.

Since the group’s inception, members have organized dinners in NYC, the Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto, Chicago, London, and more. Major conferences (including anthropology association meetings, EPIC, CHI, and others) are also common places for meet-ups. You should post to the group(s) if you are attending a conference and would like to meet up with others!

Please contact Natalie Hanson at natalie at anthrodesign dot com to have your blog added to the Blogroll on this site, or if you have questions that aren’t addressed here.