This week, we focused on detail layer of scenario and problem definition. The most fruitful thing is that we did primary research by one-on-one interview and questionnaire (of course with ethic consent).
This week’s lecture focuses more on personal agency and social rights, care and vulnerability, accessibility. I was really impressed by Sasha’s lecture about agency, identity and social rights, and feel sorry and pity that care, disability and accessibility part cannot be delivered due to tutor’s sickness. This lecture not only inspired the project, but also inspired my life. Sasha’s lecture showed a great personality and brought great value to me because I gained a new aspect to see myself, when I wrote down my own definition, I was inspired that I want to be more than a stand-up comedian, a comedy script writer, a woman, a Disney lover, a changemaker, I also want to be an artist (even though my friend already see me as one). From this lecture, I knew the definition of agency, and I was impressed that a man in his 60’s can still have so many ways to life, still have enthusiasm to explore life in different new ways such as dancing and singing, life did not get any worse because of age, it can become better and it depends on one’s own attitude towards life.
My idea of Emopia is a past tense now, we decided to focus on the speculation of people in their 20s, I interviewed people one on one and sent questionnaire to 5 of my friends. The one on one interview gave me a deeper understanding and the questionnaire gave me more general ideas. Until 8pm Sunday, we got 8 people filled in the questionnaire. From the questionnaire, I can see that people tend to link teacher and lawyer to traditional career path, and link artist and freelancer to untraditional career path. For the future place of work, they all focus more on wellbeing. From my speculation, I think the issue causing the problem is the people we chose to fill the questionnaire are too similar, 7 out of 8 are from China, and most of them are based in London having education, so they may share a same social background. So, we continued research activities and tried to find more people with diversity. By 10pm Sunday, we got more people from other part of the world engaged in our research and the number is still growing.
Other than the content of the project, this week, Elizabeth created a timetable for us to fill in, and during our conversation, I learnt that this is a way to introspect ourselves, which I think is very brilliant. And I have to say it worked on me. During the process of filling the form, I found that even I feel exhausted all the time, sometimes I actually did not put my time into the project, with the self-reflection, I tend to put more time to contribute to the project.
