Cynthia DuVal
Founding Director DuVal Ethnographic Research Center & Change Agency & Good Reason Pictures
Pacific Northwest, USA
I am an artist, applied ethnographer and film maker. I have a deep interests in thinking and how thinking changes through social interaction and over time and how it is that we facilitate outselves and each other to think in new ways. I've collaborated with other artists in music theater, film, and fine arts and with engineers as a design ethnographer working in think tank, advanced technology and project design groups. I put ethnography to work discovering innovation opportunities that are good for people, good for business and good for the world.
I'm currently working on several projects. One is a film called Golden Threads, inspired by the DesignShop (TM) on Transitioning to a Viable Society, held in Sydney Australia in March 2010. Another is an ethnography called Small Farm Life Along the Cascade Range deisgned to discover unmet needs and innovation opportunity among small farmers in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Another is a start up business helping right brain people communicate with left brain audiences and translate right brain thinking in to strategic planning and action plans.
I regularly attend the CSTC conference calls and am interested to meet and learn more about artists around the world who are using art as social transition discourse.
I live and work in a rural community in Washington not far from Seattle.
Cynthia DuVal
cynthia@duval-ethno-graphic.com
DuVal Ethnographic Research Center
