Brief: This project explores the process of design research and insight gathering.

Cultural probes is a creative research approach to engage with people and elicit inspirational information from their experiences to develop a new design space.

We suggest that you look to art/design/literature and so on for inspiration for designing research approaches, rather than obvious scientific methods such as questionnaires or ethnographies.

Don't remain objective - you can blatantly include your own design interests in the research process. Be provocative - as well as finding out about the actualities of peoples lives, perhaps you could suggest that they tell you stories, or lie to you.

Duration: 3 weeks [October 2004 - November 2004]