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- Reflection
- Evaluation
- Research Methodologies
- Primary Research
- Secondary Research
[Book] - STUDY SKILLS - Pal Grave
[Book] - SKILLS FOR SUCCESS - Stella Cottrell
Very good at not complicating concepts
[Book] - BRILLIANT DISSERTATION - Bill Kirton
What you need to know and how to do it
- reflection
- strategies
- how to scan-read
- selective reading - looking at contents
[Book] - GETTING CRITICAL - Kate Williams
- research methods
- how to evaluate web sources
[Book] - CITE THEM RIGHT - Graham Shields
- harvard referencing (Excellent examples!)
Reframing - imagery, sources, ideas and quotes
Referencing - must refer to other people's thinking
Plagurism - academic stealing (affecting reputation)
'Research Methods' - ways of collecting data/information (sometimes called 'Research Technologies')
ways of collecting data/information
reading books, journals,
surveys (participants of 100+),
questionnaires (participants of 40+),
visiting museums and collections
forums, focus groups (focused question) / people have something in common - but be selective of the group.
specialist libraries, lectures, studio visits
RSA site, BFI, British Library
beware of facebook questionnaries - do not usually target the correct audience ... unless the topic is social networking or chat!
'Methodology' - Process that incorporates various methods
Could be part of a research strategy. ie.conducting a process of 3 interviews and 1 questionnaire.
See also 'Case Study Analysis' - designed process - helps to gather data and produce a result
Methodologies that can involve observation
Look at the aims of the methodology
'The personal is the political - from the 1960s'
'The immediate now'
English/American/Anglo-Saxon view
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- notion of empiricism
'see something to say that it exists'. (pragmatic)
European view (including Germany?)
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- notion of concept
'if something existed then what if' (theoretical)
'Primary research sources'
- when you get something directly
- interview, questionnaires, surveys, seeing something in original form (place, person, object)
- usually need permission to interview
'Secondary research sources'
- desk research, more common approach
- there is usually something between you and the source - ie.editors, production team, people other than the original author.
- websites, blogs (intermediary/mediated or original/raw), text
Interviews (Primary)
- letter of introduction / people given due respect
email in advance / give them time to prepare before the meeting
it is advisable to not approach someone for an interview without reason/clear objectives
Film - primary/secondary or both? depending on whether it was filmed by an intermediary or as a video diary...a blurry distinction.
A methodology is usually a mixture of both primary and secondary sources
(next week going to British Library - meet at 10.45am in the foyer - can be enrolled as an associate reader)
'Action Research'
Questions that will be partly answered.
- Action research is a term which refers to a practical way of looking at your own work.
- Can be done by a team of colleagues or individually
- Family of methodologies
- Cyclical process
plan > act > observe > reflect
Process of Collaboration
Look - build a picture and gather information.
Think - interpreting and explaining
Action - resolving issues and problems
Ask a question - pushes a question
- look closely at what is going on.
- explore the qualities of imagined solutions
- use your intuition
DESCRIBING THE O2 DOME
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Look - what is looking - male gaze/female gaze
Image - what is going on socially, secret language
INTERMISSION!
Libby Anson - Enterprise Support Manager - Work placements, Incubation
Have to find your own work, but can help with Action planning and goal setting
Business Development
l.anson@rave.ac.uk
Can support applications
Must build own contacts
Employability - posted opportunities
Approached by employers with live briefs
Brita - Moodle - 2 weeks time (PG01-05)
Commercial liaison
Back to the Dome! - It's Future facing, Sci-Fi, New
In IDM language describe the exploration of the O2 within pathway group.
It is a paradox - #1 uk entertainment venue, #10 target threat
Sight, sound, smell, feeling
Reflection of lights
Different positions of view - Bird's eye view, peninsula view from space, piracy/theft on the peninsula, gasometer nearby - listed and visited from all over the world in the past.
3D gallery
3d abacus lights
lighting sources - neon signs, natural light, uplifting, spotlights, composite lights with rgb diodes
sounds - music,speakers,footsteps,air conditioning
displays - column - wrap screen
water margin restaurant - green lanterns
psycho-geography
screen restarting windows
o2 studio - video space - attendant
nissan innovation station - aspects of driving experience
AR interactive - car on backlit glass screen with hidden projector and front-facing hand sensors
comments from short customer interviews/representative of demographic on different size screens
barcode scanner - gameshow exhibit, presenting 3 results
gaming/racing vibration cradle
interactive music disc controls (I really liked these alot, went back for second and third look!) - Rhythm, Harmony, Melody channels
picture booth - car and postcard, virtual keyboard
revolving doors - front
'permanence'
'people'
'what is a frontier?'
'social anthropologist'
I think it generally has a lack of interactive spaces, but there is a lot of pre-running digital signage however.
Learning Log - Confluence
rolling entries not just on tuesday
scan learning plan notes > PC / Photograph
Learning Plan - submit as PDF on Tues 15 Nov 2011
Manifesto - submit as Printed Form on Tues 15 Nov 2011
Individual Researched Text to submit as PDF on Tuesday 17 Jan 2012
Formative Assessment - 10 mins talk
List of things to do:
Go to Study Zone
Learning Plan - scans
Moodle - 30 second presentation
Background/Suggested reading
Read about Harvard referencing
Main idea for the project
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