Week 3 Update

This week in the wonderful world of Sonder Research, I took a step back to think about what skills I will be learning in doing this project rather than just focusing on all the fun, conceptual parts. Here are the objectives I came up with:

1. Expand on ability to visually and conceptually capture a person, place, or idea. This will be practiced through the collection of images, observation sketches, and data.
2. Develop interpersonal research skills by learning different ways to collect and analyze date. I will be practicing this through surveying, interviewing, observations, requesting permissions, and interacting with people in a specific environment.
3. Synthesize and explain diverse materials in a cohesive and legible way. This will be attained by creating a presentation/exhibit space and measuring people's understanding and reception of the data in a public symposium. 

With these learning objectives in place, I was able to go through my list of questions and determine which locations fit best with each question. The locations, as mentioned in a previous post, were determined by examining the most common locations that people of all ages visited over the span of ten days.  With locations and questions in mind, I can move forward to determine the best ways of collecting the data. As engagement and interaction is an integral part of this project, the different data collection methods are designed to reach people in different ways. Some the data collection methods that I intend to use include: drawings on paper, sticky notes on a posted board, audio recordings, written responses, tallying, photo submissions, and some classic listening and transcribing. The questions themselves are designed to catch a glimpse into people's every day lives and all fit into categories that were pulled out of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows definition.

If you would like to interact with some of these questions, feel free to like the Facebook page, Sonder Research ( @theJourneyofSonder).