Mapping & research methods

LECTURE BY DR. PETER HALL

INTRODUCTION

1. QUALITATIVE VS. QUANTITATIVE

Nowadays people seek+respect more quantitative data than qualitative. Safety in numbers.

2.PRIMARY + SECONDARY

Nowadays

3. LITERATURE REVIEW

Quantified data gives new knowledge, perspective and insight into people's minds.

What is self data and how the making of all this personal data work for the best of the worst?

4. GROUNDED THEORY

5. UNCONSTRUCTED VS SEMI CONSTRUCTED INTERVIEWING

Unconstructed: Waste of time.

Semi-Constructed: Make a list of questions and follow the order. Don't go through all of them, but react to how the interview is going.

6. COGNITIVE MAPPING

Concept map: Visualization of ideas, concepts...

7. PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

Through design process and meaningful engagement to actual results.

MAPS AND MAPPING

1. MAPS AND MAPPING

What is anti-mapping?

Map: Product made from cartographers. Solid work.

Mapping: The process. More possibilities, open to interpretation.

2. MAPPING: A RESEARCH METHOD?

NYC's Highline: Acknowledgement of city's history + need for outdoor/open air spaces.

Book about Ayotzinapa's tragedy.

CASE STUDIES

1. MART COMMUNITY PROJECT:

Abandoned American town, phantomed. The town had lost a lot of trade and life with the rerouting of the main highway.
Historically segregated.
Work with local high schoolers and university design students, they made a project to remap the town.
"Things to go in Mart": The project expected to improve local movement, people relations, business, daily life...

2. PLASTIC JUSTICE

3. LEGO + INFORMATION SECURITY

Used legos to visualize info: Other mapping instruments/types seemed too "aggressive", and hard to understand for people not working in that specific trade.
Helped improve help, trust and interaction/participation of the people working out problems in Internet security.

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15 OCTOBER 2021

Research Methods