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- Feed Preview Cultural Norms – Jan Chipchase
Mobile / Home Theory
Photo credit: Venetia Tay. In cultures where guests are frequently invited into the home, the home is the dominant mechanism for communicating stories about ourselves, what …
Outside Looking In
Your world view depending on whether you’re inside or outside of the bubble. Passing through Chengdu.
Post
Short, fun interview for Sprudge magazine on the joy of coffee here. What does the photo have to do with caffeine intake? An early, breathless …
Know Your Customer
In most countries consumers can buy pre-paid cards after presenting some form of identification, so-called KYC (Know Your Customer) requirements. In Saudi Arabia that identification …
The (Economics of the) Generator
Roadside bottle-on-a-barrel fuel for the generator can be cheaper than a more formal petrol station, but does carry the risk of dirtying and shortening …
https://janchipchase.com/2013/09/the-economics-of-the-generator/
Grain Merchant & Sons
In Herat, while the team was finishing interviews at the local Roshan office, wandered down the street doing ad-hocs with a few traders. This gent …
Party. Articulated.
What you stand for. And how it is communicated. From Myanmar.
The Disneyfication of Hamza Stores
https://janchipchase.com/2013/09/the-disneyfication-of-hamza-store/
Roles & Death Memorialisation Norms
How we memorialise roles & death in the urban infrastructure? And how this changes as our memory of death’s past, grows persistent? From Baalbeck, Lebanon earlier …
https://janchipchase.com/2013/09/death-memorialisation-norms/
Pump Norms
Minimal petrol station norms – in the harbour port of Ojika.
Fresh to the Door
The ways in which delivery from production to the home shelf can be automated. In a world of known demand + spatial awareness + autonomous …
Harpoon Caught
The cynical consumer naturally thinks of a harpooner in a fish-farm.
Layers
National day flags hanging outside apartment block.
Sliced Rectangles
Tokyo is known for its oddly angled buildings such as the sloping roof’s on the the row of buildings in the center of the picture. …
Drone Unfriendly Skies
The geography and infrastructure that supports or detracts from the ability of autonomous things to move around.
Ping Pong Vend
An upfront stereotypical example of local Hong Kong norms – an old ping pong vending machine, shrine, and fabrics for sale.
The Little Van That Does
Every country has its staple transport, something unpretentious that outside of cities keeps people and objects moving. For Japan its the 4WD Subaru Sambar and …
Measured
The local reference points for metrics. “A nose” “20 hands” “A bottle”
Perpendicular
The sight when you catch the 4am train out of Mandalay for Hsipaw.
Consumer Literacy
Branding focussed on value, versus technology. And the assumptions consumers have associated with each of the technologies.
Trouser Protectors
Nice riff off the arm protectors that are common in rural China: trouser protectors worn just over the ankle.
Pollution Mask as Default
Stayed one night at the Waterhouse at South Bund in Shanghai (Puli or Urbn better for the rest of the week) – a hotel where …
Delivery
Delivery in delivery-culture.
Bribing/Incentivising the Driver
Private car companies such as Uber provide a tiered service: the black limo provides a superior service at a higher cost than Uberx or regular …
https://janchipchase.com/2013/06/bribingincentivising-the-driver/