Probing The Place
Exercise: Probing The Place
What are the goals:
- To learn about different Cultural/Design Probe techniques
- To consider how to gather data which reflects multi-sensory and multi-modal experience.
- To reflect upon how one of your projects could have been documented to reflect complexity/different perspectives, and/or how future ones can be.
Social matrix:
- eg. Individual
Timespan:
60mins
Preparation
- Read about previous Probe activity & research from: http://orgcult.wikidot.com/ssw2-session-08
- Recall/do the following exercises:
- 'My last project and me' exercise: http://orgcult.wikidot.com/my-last-project-and-me
- 'Site-specific memories aka The Place' exercise: http://orgcult.wikidot.com/site-specific-memories
Introduction (2 mins)
- Explain process and make sure everyone understands what we hope to learn and also how to do it
Activity (45 mins)
- Recall the Site-specific memories aka The Place exercise done previously which described a memory from 'My last project and me'
- Consider how you might use 'Probe' methods to gather data on your this project in retrospect
- Reflect if these methods would be useful for you and/or others in the project, such as collaborators, participants or audience in the process
- Identify 2-3 (but no more than 5) 'Probe' tools that would be useful (feel free to use ones already identified or invent new ones to suit the context)
- Write down these different 'Probe' tools, giving 2-3 sentences identifying what type of sensory/experience data they would offer, and the justification for their use
Discussion (10 mins)
If group discussion is desired, consider the question: How might your project have been represented differently if you had used these probes to gather data?
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