Wednesday, 7 October 2015

approaches to research


In this seminar class we looked in to how different stances of research helped certain processes. To demonstrate this, we took the '20 questions' example but formulated ten questions in which a partner had to guess our object. 
With these prescribed before being answered it was easy to recognise the issue of how hard they were to write, given that we knew personally what we were referring to, and instinctively the questions you think of overlap in context. e.g.regarding a gendered item- 'is it a boy? and then 'is it a girl?'. Thats fundamentally the same question.

However when re-doing this activity and working the question script spontaneously, it was easier to apply the questions correctly and in correlation to what the other person had responded. 

In short the 'call' now becomes influenced by the 'response'. 

Parralax- call phrase and response phrase

Realising the difficulties, it was easy to apply the idea of parallaxs. In this research is a fluid process with ebb and flow. That concrete schemes often hinder, organised plans can help. Don't close enquiries, step back and look around to see the whole journey.

My example of a parallax was the human eye. While this doesn't relate to approaches to research, it did help in that it perfectly demonstrates how there is two views to one thing. Focus on one item shifts depending on which eye you look at it from.