mobile.migrant.communities. Postcards from the field

Remember I told you we were experimenting with small ideas to keep our internal partners in the loop of our field research as early as possible.

This includes designing the space of the research with their inputs (thanks to individual interviews and comments on the work in progress on collaboration tools at the beginning of the project), and later associating them to our first analyses in workshops and revising our reports with their feedbacks. But to bridge the temporal gap between the participatory definition of the project at the beginning and the discussions on its impacts at the end, we try to give them a sense of what is the core of our work according to us : what is happening on the field.

This year we called this attempt "postcards from the field" (maybe because the fieldwork is to be done during the Summer holidays). Here is one :

The postcard from the field is a under 2 minutes view of a striking fact from our field observations. One is done for each user. It communicates something that the ethnographer has felt to be important to keep in mind after this observation and interview. It is mainly visual, with most of the time a picture, a user quote and a comment in one or two sentences. I may post some more on this blog if you want to stay in the loop too...