Ubiquitous Design. Ethnographic glances toward syncretisms, polyphonies, meta-fetishisms

AbstractMy paper will connect ubiquitous subjectivity and ethnographic perspective: a montage of cultural fragments selected from social networks and visual artists, digital communication and urban panoramas. The ethnographic experiences based on material/immaterial fieldwork may offer a decentred methodological perspective in order to face, decipher and invent the contemporary forest of symbols. Anthropology applied to design produces syncretic, ubiquitous, polyphonic transfusions about different cultures, codes, styles. This is the focus for an "undisciplined" design oriented by a multi-sited methodology. Ubiquity revolves around spaces/times relationship through the ethnographic method of field research, expanding syncretic concepts in digital/auratic cultures. My paper faces the concept of ubiquity through web-culture and performative ubiquitous subjects. Ubiquitous design may prepare researchers for the encounter with the stranger, the uncanny, the unknown. Ubiquitous ethnography is experienced every..