Month: October 2018

Summary of Assignment

Here is a PDF link to: Response Paper

We were asked to select and review one of the articles dealing with context-aware critical approaches related to our fields of interests, and to answer the following question:

What ideas can be helpful from this article to be adapted for your own project(s)?

Summary of Assignment

Here is a PDF link to my Response Paper #3

We were asked to watch Villenueve’s Arrival film and to write a more elaborate paper of the responses provided in Papers #1 & #2, by including these points:

a) How has the reflection undertaken so far in Module 2 shifted and/or deepened your emerging or already chosen research topics, and the ways you envision proceeding? Has one of the suggested topics, or may be a new one, emerged as the more compelling option?

b) Taking on this film, and reflecting on previous materials and discussions, do you foresee new ideas to approach your research going forward with your tutorials and/or Graduating Project? Include for example a reflection on your personal history, limitations, normalized assumptions on the field, and other contextual considerations that you want to be mindful of as a way of engaging in a situated dialogue with your topic.

c) How do you foresee adapting methods or creating new procedures for your project? The final way will be up to your negotiation with the situation, but what do you imagine happening?

The additional instructions for this assignment were to watch the movie while observing the following:

• What is the role each character represents regarding approaches to research?
• Can an open (open to fair ‘play’) dialogue be established while following previously set procedures (or methods)?
• In which ways the development of a ‘language’ in the movie, plays the role of finding a situated ‘method’ to understand the other?
• What is the role context plays in the way research is pursued in the movie?

Summary of the Assignment

Here is a PDF link to my: Response Paper #2

I was asked to review the reading/watching materials “Gadamer and the Game of Understanding” by Monica Vilhauer, and Tao Ruspoli’s movie “being in the world” and to complete the following tasks:

a) Make a reflection on what are the leading ideas connecting the two materials.

b) Taking on your previous Response Paper #1 about your research prospects and data handling, now include a separate reflection on how some ideas from the reading and the film may be useful for thinking on HOW TO DO your research project(s). Think on just anything you may imagine, for now. Later, we will take a look to more concrete examples.

Summary of the Assignment

Here is a PDF link to my Response Paper #1

I was asked to read the first chapter of Berger’s ways of Seeing and to elaborate more on my previous Fields of Interest Assignment, point #5, by incorporating a reflection on what opportunities and problems ‘sampled’ data may bring to my project(s), and to research as a whole. The paper should answer the following questions:

1. What kind of information will you use?
2. How to inspect reality not just as “data” but phenomena in sense-making context, your own perception included in that context?
3. How is the world changed by the way we see it? Does my view make sense to preserve life (social, environmental) as a whole?
4. What alternative, non-hard-data-driven, ways of doing research in your field do you foresee?