TY - JOUR

T1 - The Future Airport

T2 - Experiments and Innovative Technologies

AU - Ilkjær, Helene

PY - 2019/5/1

Y1 - 2019/5/1

N2 - Zooming in on the micro-processes involved in developing and user testing new technologies for airports, this article works with the notion of experiments as a way to understand iterative practices and future (re)orientations. In doing so, I aim to think through experiences and experiments with applied anthropology and corporate ethnography within a dialogic framework of 1) current airport industry efforts of re-visioning stakeholder collaboration and airport re-branding and 2) the attempts of a Danish start-up company to create market disruption through innovative technology development. Although the experiments take place at different scales and are performed in different ways, I contend that they must be considered within a common frame in order to tease out their interconnectedness, particularly with regards to experimental confines and motivations. Based on some relatively raw case material, this article unfolds the different layers of experiments and the underlying assumptions that they make apparent.

AB - Zooming in on the micro-processes involved in developing and user testing new technologies for airports, this article works with the notion of experiments as a way to understand iterative practices and future (re)orientations. In doing so, I aim to think through experiences and experiments with applied anthropology and corporate ethnography within a dialogic framework of 1) current airport industry efforts of re-visioning stakeholder collaboration and airport re-branding and 2) the attempts of a Danish start-up company to create market disruption through innovative technology development. Although the experiments take place at different scales and are performed in different ways, I contend that they must be considered within a common frame in order to tease out their interconnectedness, particularly with regards to experimental confines and motivations. Based on some relatively raw case material, this article unfolds the different layers of experiments and the underlying assumptions that they make apparent.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Experimentation

KW - User Tests

KW - Airports

KW - Technology

U2 - 10.22439/jba.v8i1.5720

DO - 10.22439/jba.v8i1.5720

M3 - Journal article

VL - 8

SP - 86

EP - 107

JO - Journal of Business Anthropology

JF - Journal of Business Anthropology

SN - 2245-4217

IS - 1

ER -