A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research
This article considers cultural probes as an experimental qualitative method in promoting collaborative and prefigurative participation in research. While the extant literature tends to frame cultural probes either as the discounted ethnographic tool or the means to gather design inspiration, such a framing also results in an irreconcilable methodological and conceptual dichotomy. Seeking to overcome this binary, this paper draws inspiration from Michel de Certeau’s concept of “poaching” to contemplate how cultural probes may elicit and provoke both inspirational and analytical data. Through an empirical study of the everyday waste practices of 10 young university students in Hong Kong, this study discusses the rationale of different cultural probes designs and participants’ experience in completing the probes. This paper argues that the cultural probes may offer a speculative and creative qualitative inquiry to cultivate one’s “attentiveness”, generate “politics of reconfiguration”, and make sense of “uncertainty” in knowledge production.
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research
This article considers cultural probes as an experimental qualitative method in promoting collaborative and prefigurative participation in research. While the extant literature tends to frame cultural probes either as the discounted ethnographic tool or the means to gather design inspiration, such a framing also results in an irreconcilable methodological and conceptual dichotomy. Seeking to overcome this binary, this paper draws inspiration from Michel de Certeau’s concept of “poaching” to contemplate how cultural probes may elicit and provoke both inspirational and analytical data. Through an empirical study of the everyday waste practices of 10 young university students in Hong Kong, this study discusses the rationale of different cultural probes designs and participants’ experience in completing the probes. This paper argues that the cultural probes may offer a speculative and creative qualitative inquiry to cultivate one’s “attentiveness”, generate “politics of reconfiguration”, and make sense of “uncertainty” in knowledge production.
Cultural probes: a speculative and creative method for environmental research
Lau, Justin Chun-Him (author) / Cheng, Michelle W. T. (author)
Local Environment ; 29 ; 386-398
2024-03-03
13 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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