24.1.2022 - 6.2.2022 (Week 4 - Week 5)
Chung Yi Ki / 0345014 / BDCM
Intercultural Design
Project 2: Data Collection
Lecture
Lecture 1 and 2 were documented in Project 1: Proposal
Instructions
Research development
Fig 1.1 Online forum questions (24/1/2022) |
Fig 1.2 Questionnaire questions (24/1/2022) |
For our data collection, we started with coming up with the questions that
we want to ask for our questionnaire and on an online forum website called
Reddit together. After that, we thought about the people that we can
interview and the person who suggested the interviewee are in charge of
coming up with the interview questions, while for articles, we each are
tasked to find any articles that are able to answer our research questions
and note down the passage that we can refer too.
Fig 1.4 Interview answers interpretation draft (29/1/2022) |
Since I suggested my relative for us to interview for our data collection, I
wrote down some questions that we can ask which relates to her work but also
is able to help us answer our research questions. I also included a question
about tarot cards design to help us decide later on which design idea from
our proposal is the most suitable to further develop as our final outcome.
After we agreed on the questions, I then sent them to my relative through
Whatsapp messaging as you can see in the evidence in the final presentation
slides. I've also written down the interpretation for the answers of each
questions as well, the final version can be seen in the final slides.
Fig 1.5 r/AskReddit post (25/1/2022) r/tarot and r/TarotDecks post (26/1/2022) |
For the reddit posts, I helped out in posting our questions on various
subreddits on the website. I posted the first few questions on on
r/AskReddit
since it has a more wider and general audience. For the tarot cards
questions, I posted it on
r/tarot
and
r/TarotDecks
as both subreddits have different groups of audience. We decided to post the
same questions we asked our first interview on reddit as we wanted to gather
more opinions on it.
As for the article research, I managed to find credible academic sources
that are related to our topic and are able to answer our research questions
as well. I then written down my findings and discussions on it to explain apotropaic magic based on the references I've read.
Research on the reason of belief in magic:
- https://www.academia.edu/download/64512083/Material%20Culture%20as%20Amulets%20-%20Magical%20Elements%20and%20the%20Apotropaic%20in%20Ancient%20Roman%20World.pdf
- https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43173792.pdf
- https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/55292446/Ancient_Cultures_Markham_J.-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1643619269&Signature=LUAGcS6D6M3akfQ9Q56oABhkMMsCPzf9P-uMNFfvPkaJCXzr3zYYoiDs5uh8uTyioV0qmcH4IXwm3~4SvTcNhiE8XJvBXa4AhPQj6Crr1mmwi9gOARbWTiX0B~vewNsCtGYRTSmJ0B8qVshu9W2X40pJAF~X5wIyNTejU5fhLp4o4npjzjn-MKY-gSl9HezdKVtqzwFpCWx0~Mo~ovsMF2Gfz~joJdXCSr9gJMNNfA3pxouANGM128tw37BEyHbnEvPdrF-V9t0qFuvWTS-Gdhp4QpSh4F4vc5I6PmxbmAozTPGjDJshOE2jj29RcMS5B3jVm-EqmrPeJ3ALlON~eg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA
Research on apotropaic (evil) magic:
- http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0241/2017/0350-02411767167M.pdf
- https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/secrets-of-ancient-magic/
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/26926762
Research on current situation which relates to "evil vs evil"
Fig 1.6 Passages taken from each links for easy reference
when writing the research findings in the final presentation slides (28/1/2022)
Finally, we compiled all our findings in a presentation slide and recorded
our presentation as well.
Final Project 2 presentation slides and video
Fig 2.1 Final Project 2 presentation deck (6/2/2022)
Fig 2.2 Final Project 2 presentation video (6/2/2022)
Feedbacks
Week 5
Great findings. Write down a conclusion, perhaps we can sum it up in terms of
cultural perception. For example, the fact that the believe in protection
using evil is nothing new, it can be seen it's practiced across different
cultures and its even more prevalent now because of current situation. Etc. So
that it can be linked to our tarot card ideas in our proposal.
Reflection
Experience
Throughout this project, it was an interesting learning process from
interviewing, engaging in online forums and reading on articles. I find the
most fascinating part to be reading on the opinions we gathered for
interviews, online forum and questionnaire, especially questionnaire where
we got a lot of insights from people with different experiences. All these
data gathered definitely helped us form a clearer path on where our design
direction should focus on.
Observation
I observed that choosing a topic that has sources which we can gather easily
in online learning is an important consideration when it comes to doing data
collection through online means. Our topic is not very well-known so there
isn’t a lot of expert sources available for us to get the kind of
information that we want, so we had to think of a solution for that problem
while collecting our data.
Findings
I found that there are a lot of ways to go about collecting data for a topic
like ours. Since the topic we chose isn’t largely known and harder to find
the exact right person to interview, so we would have to think out of the
box in find people who are somewhat related and ask questions in a way that
we could also get information for our topic. In other words, collecting data
isn’t always a straightforward process but sometimes it needs some
workaround to get across a problem.
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