I feel Abbie provided valuable feedback regarding staying on target and not losing sight of the goal of my investigation project. As a results-orientated person, I often slip into thinking in absolutes and I have sometimes struggled to resist chasing outcomes and instead focus on the process itself. Moving forward, I plan to reflect on the recordings I have gathered and how they can be interpreted / reconfigured / recontextualized into something that speaks to the inherent subjectivity of both interview as a process and the knowledge it produces. Reflecting further on my chosen method, I can also see that each interview (and indeed my choice of interview as a method of investigation) is informed by my own personality.
I find the practicalities of presenting a method as an outcome (in the context of this assignment) challenging, and my tutorial group presented interesting ideas on how I might achieve this. I plan to spend time transcribing the audio I have gathered, experimenting with redaction (at the suggestion of Aishwarya) and examining the volume for patterns and keywords. I was also particularly drawn to Yihan’s suggestion of creating images based on words from each interview, and I will give further thought on how I might pursue this route without once more falling into the trap of being overly outcome-orientated.
I do feel that my method of investigation thus far may lack the thorough depth to be considered exhaustive. This being said, I feel such a shortcoming is inherent when focusing on the subjectivity that underlies a person’s lived experience of place. Can a project ever truly be exhaustive when investigating the myriad variations of situated experience?