A Designer’s Guide to Rogue Ethnography
- Forthcoming: expected December 2026. You can pre-order this book in our webshop. As soon as the book is available, we will dispatch your order.
Author: Michael Kaethler
Visuals: Priscilla Suarez Bock
Design: Wibke Bramesfeld
December 2026, Valiz | supported by Creative Industries Fund NL | pb | c. 240 pp. | 21,5 x 11,5 cm (h x w) | English | ISBN 978-94-93246-65-2 | € 25,00
Day by day we encounter unfolding complicated social, economic, political and ecological crises. We urgently need new tools that can alter our ways of seeing, knowing, interpreting and therefore also being in our world.
A Designer’s Guide to Rogue Ethnography brings together design, anthropology, sociology, performance, surrealism, and artistic research to propose ten experimental methods for working with reality otherwise. Instead of standing back to observe, these approaches intervene in the field: they disrupt, defamiliarize, stage, map hidden forces, and re-enchant the ordinary. These are methods that don’t just describe the world—they interfere with what it is and how it holds together. They offer imaginative ways of seeing, sensing, and making sense of our entangled realities.