Monthly Archives: January 2025

As a precursor to undertaking the focus groups, I decided to conduct a survey with my Year 1 students to just get a temperature check in terms of how folks are getting on with friends and forging community. Survey Question: … Continue reading →

Recording Session 1: Transcript Session 1:(Un-edited) Participants Session 1:Hubert ChengPrin AkapongkulRavin Raori Focus Group Questions:(OpenAI ChatGPT, 2024)Note*I would like to acknowledge my use of OpenAI Chat GPT in helping structure the questions for my focus groups. I used the AI to … Continue reading →

Above is a PDF version of my presentation. However, my presentation includes dynamic content so I will be presenting using Keynote. I am attaching the Keynote file here as a Google Drive Link.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ItvsIgF43UdAaIiigI9z5P_7xFHu6mIs/view?usp=sharing

Recording Session 1: Transcript Session 1:(Un-edited) Participants Session 1:Arushi PrakashDevananda SudeeshHuiyuan XinYifan JiangRavin Raori Focus Group Questions:(OpenAI ChatGPT, 2024)Note*I would like to acknowledge my use of OpenAI Chat GPT in helping structure the questions for my focus groups. I used the … Continue reading →

In her presentation on Qualitative Data, Victoria Odenyiyi from the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute defines linguistic ethnography as: An interpretive approach which studies the local and immediate actions of actors from their point of view and considers how these interactions … Continue reading →

Intention:At sort-of the midway point of my project, I realised that I needed some kind of sense check or touchpoint to hear from students on what they thinking about these notions of community and/or belonging with the context of their … Continue reading →

Changes Made-Responding to the first iteration of this intervention, I decided to be more specific about the assigning of roles within the group. Instead of students choosing their own roles, I asked students within each group to arrange themselves alphabetically … Continue reading →

Note* I’ve not made this into two separate posts because I didn’t change much across the two rotations of the project for which I ran this intervention. What:An intervention to study group work, furniture layout and rearranging the studio environment. … Continue reading →

Based on Reading:Broadhead, S. (2018). Friendship, discourse and belonging in the studio: the experiences of ‘non-traditional’ students in Design Higher Education. In Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers (pp. 17-28). Brill. Reflection: The design studio space (both in its physical and virtual … Continue reading →