A few more images from the field (taken by Lama).

The comments about the camera included: "They asked if they could see what they had taken. I explained to them that it was not digital. They said they wanted to see the pictures after they had been developed." (which they will get eventually)


About the kit: "The kit was practical and handy. If you have a thin waist, some with a larger waist struggled with it. They said it looked odd. I noticed how instead of wearing it on the waist, they walked with it strapped over their shoulder." (these were some of my speculations so this feedback is great)

Method Cards

Method Cards

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These method cards are brilliant ways to enhance or inspire one's design process. My cultural probes are one of the ideas that IDEO also utilizes in their work.

Aspirations

This exercise is asking the participant to identify what they need (red dots) versus what they wish they had (green dots). Here is a rough image showing 6 of the 10 responses. The majority of images come from IDEO's HCD Toolkit.


Interestingly, one participant numbered the priority of each. They are hung here in order from number 1 to number 6 in each category. I am not certain as to how she interpreted each image but for my purposes I'm listing them as this:

Needs:
1. Clean water
2. Truck
3. Books/education
4. Shop for amenities
5. Firewood
6. Cell phone

Wants:
1. A better house
2. Tractor
3. Doctor
4. Jerrican (or fuel?)
5. Electricity
6. Computers

I have a lot of thoughts about these images but I'll save writing about them for my actual thesis paper.

Scenes from the field

Lama took some shots to show what happened when the kits were delivered to the women.


(T-B, L-R: Signing the informed consent form, explaining the research, drawing in the notepad, and using a pencil crayon as a ruler)

Through their lens

The film has been developed. A sampling of images that were returned from Rwanda.

Kits come back to Canada

The research probes are now with me and I sit before 10 Ziploc bags filled with cameras, drawings and the like. Much to process, consider and write about as a result of this new piece of my research. If you're new to the storyline, these posts will fill you in (they start from the most recent and work backwards). More to come for sure.