Lab at EASA 2026, Adam Mickiewicz University

Together with colleagues from Toyota Research Institute (USA), ESIC University (Spain), and the University of Groeningen (Netherlands), Dr. Lora Koycheva is co-convening a lab at the biennial European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) event in Poznań, Poland, at Adam Mickiewicz University.

The lab is on the theme "Critique by Building: Founding as an Anthropological Method of and for Possibility

Whether aimed at making academics more entrepreneurial (Koycheva 2022; cf. Artz and Koycheva 2024; Dimov 2020) or entrepreneurs more scientific in their approach (Dimov 2024), venturing can surface and develop possibilities from research. This indoor hybrid lab brings this conversation to anthropology to ask: how can founding a venture advance anthropological intervention in a polarized world?

Conceptualized as a method (Sarasvathy and Venkataraman 2011), entrepreneurship is virtually absent from the anthropological toolbox for knowledge formation, knowledge formalization, and intervention in the world. Lab participants reconceptualize founding as an anthropological method; confront the limits of critique in its standard academic form; generated speculative but grounded ventures as theory in action; reflect on anthropology’s role in public, economic, and political life through venturing.

Kontakt

Dr. phil. Lora Koycheva
Allgemeine Technikwissenschaft
lora.koycheva(at)b-tu.de

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