plans for the summer:
Interviews: continue interviews with more women
Tests:
Smell - Use aromatherapy (talk to N about it)
Sounds - music: choose a specific song that is connected to a memory or a feeling:
A song that generates feelings of control and uplifting
A song that generates feeling of mesmerizing, nostalgic memories
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sight - watch personal photos from specific period in your life that were happy and sad.
Haptic - textile workshop
Talk - story telling as therapy
Multi-sensory experience - watch my video and talk about the feeling that you experience from watching the video.
Textile workshop cross reference with story telling.
VR mindfulness experience - continue research in this direction.
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Progress Report ahead of Independent Study Period – 2019
Please complete the questions below documenting and providing information ahead of the Independent Study Period. Your answers will provide your tutor with an up-to-date account of your project as well as identifying any issues. Provide as much detail as you can as this will also inform your forthcoming tutorials and give us some background ahead the Independent Study Period.
Summarise in a few sentences what your route of enquiry is. What are you trying to find an answer to? How will action research enable you to achieve the change you are seeking?
To eliminate any assumption, please state what theory or secondary research
supports your assertion or area of interest?
What is the latest version of your question?
Briefly describe your intervention(s)
What change do you hope to achieve as a result of your interventions?
I would like these women to be more open to new ideas that can help them cope with their problems.
Create a community of supportive women.
VR for mindfulness, create a multi sensory experience of mindfulness using VR.
What have you learned from the testing of your interventions?
Some of the women I have interviewed are not interested in changing their life
All women I met were happy to share and talk, and found the story telling a therapeutic tool.
I need to be more focus on my interviews on my subject. I easily drift away to their own stories.
Provide a list of key people/organisations who have given feedback including
experts, collaborators or gatekeepers to date.
VR meetup to find whats going on in the industry on this matter.
What is the next stage of your action research and when do you plan to implement
this? Please provide a brief outline of planned activity for June and July
plans for the summer:
Interviews: continue interviews with more women
Tests:
Smell - Use aromatherapy (talk to N about it)
Sounds - music: choose a specific song that is connected to a memory or a feeling:
A song that generates feelings of control and uplifting
A song that generates feeling of mesmerizing, nostalgic memories
sight - watch personal photos from specific period in your life that were happy and sad.
Haptic - textile workshop
Talk - story telling as therapy
Multi-sensory experience - watch my video and talk about the feeling that you experience from watching the video.
Textile workshop cross reference with story telling.
VR mindfulness experience - continue research in this direction.
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CURRENT RESEARCH QUESTION: How can we develop a bespoke wide sensory experience for women that helps them cope and overcome hardship during relocation/migration.
PROJECT SUMMARY: (In approx 100 words describe what your project is) In my project I try to develop tools using sensory mediation, visual, sound and performance that can help women to handle and overcome hardship during relocation/immigration. Being a woman who immigrates from another country to London, UK, I’m experiencing ESL, alienation, loneliness, self-doubts, identity lost and such feeling like part of moving to a new place with my family. Adding to this complicated equation, we are coping with a hardship that shuffles our inner compass and forces us to develop a new resilience from this new imbalance.
YOUR CURRENT INTERVENTION (100 words max) In my current intervention, I’m creating a video of performance using a reversible shirt that metaphorically presents some of the emotions and feeling that are being experienced while coping with hardship during relocation/immigration period. I’m integrating these emotions from my personal experiencing and my conclusions from the interviews I did: I have interviewed 9 Israeli women so far that confide their hardship stories, their feelings, thoughts and pain from hardship during their immigration, how they cope with the hardship, if they were able to overcome, receive some help or gain more resilience.
WHO ARE YOUR KEY FEEDBACK RESPONDENTS/EXPERTS TO DATE?
(individuals, companies, or interest groups):
My key feedback respondents are individuals who share their hardship experience with me, and I’m
trying to develop some tools to help us cope and overcome these hardships. The background story
being the relocation and immigration stories can be relevant for companies, interest groups or
organizations that work in this field.
WHO ARE YOUR POTENTIAL GATEKEEPERS?
My potential gatekeepers can be art exhibitors to present my performance. For my advanced
intervention I want to reach out to groups and organization that support and educate immigrants
communities.
WHAT ARE YOUR KEY FINDINGS SINCE THE START OF UNIT 2?
(These can be a combination of primary and secondary research – 70 words max, please)
My key findings in my primary research: I interviewed 9 Israeli women who were willing to confide their hardship
during the relocation/immigration period. I was able to distinguish some feelings and emotions that occur for most of
the women and I’m trying to explore them and
WHAT ARE YOUR NEXT KEY ACTIONS?
(70 words max, please)
My next key actions:
Continue my research in more depth - conduct more interviews with women from different countries, and
establish cultural specific differences in methods and approaches,
Develop my ideas and methods or wide sensory experience for coping with hardships.
Start testing my idea with women who are willing to participate.
WHAT ARE THE STRENGTHS/OPPORTUNITIES IN YOUR PROJECT?
The strengths/opportunities in my project are to learn about problems and struggles that happened to women in
relocation, which is something that women do not always feel comfortable to share and try to find support for
them and empower them.
WHAT GAPS OR WEAKNESSES CAN YOU IDENTIFY IN YOUR PROJECT SO FAR?
I’m still in an early stage but I’m worried if I will be able to test and explore my test to a wider group of women.
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