Forty percent fieldwork, 60 percent transportation.

I was doing fieldwork in the Costa Rican rainforest, and things have changed dramatically for me.

I was going to this place every year and would do fieldwork here, and the assistants, of course, helped me do the surveys.

So students started to flow in, and we started to build technologies, because that's basically what we also needed in order to move forward and go and do fieldwork.

You know, one of the intense pleasures of travel and one of the delights of ethnographic research is the opportunity to live amongst those who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants.

And during that time, they're doing everything from going out and doing ethnographic research and doing the need finding, coming back into the studio, doing the brainstorming and design visualization to come up with concepts that might work, and then moving into the shop and actually testing them, building them, prototyping them, figuring out if they are going to work and refining that.