Exploring Visual, Sensory Ethnographic Methods for Researching Culture
This lab encourages students to approach their respective research topics ethnographically, using all their senses. Students explore and discuss how these sensory methods can be brought into fruitful dialog with text-based, “truth-driven” modes of research and writing. Conscious of the wider contemporary realities of social, economic and environmental injustices, this lab also encourages students to address the issue of relevance, in terms of how their proposed research might stimulate awareness and transformation among audiences and participants. How can media arts and design interpret, embody and represent culture and heritage in ways that have a transformative social impact?