Redefined Research Question:
How can individuals navigate the complexities of their personal identity in an urban context?
Work Plan
Following the insights from last week’s “London City Walk” intervention, the upcoming agenda is strategically designed to deepen the understanding of how city spaces influence cultural identity and belonging and the complexities of personal cultural identity.
- Expert Interview: I will conduct interviews with relevant experts (psychology and virtual arts) to further examine the intricate relationship between urban environments and personal cultural narratives. This discussion aims to a. build upon the reflections and themes that emerged from the city walk, enhancing our theoretical framework; b. to seek experts’ advice on the “personalised individual’s cultural map” intervention.
- Collage and Drawing Tool Experimentation: According to the research, “A cultural mosaic is presented as a framework to identify demographic, geographic, and associative features underlying culture. An individual’s unique collage of multiple cultural identities yields a complex picture of the cultural influences on that person” (Chao and Moon, 2005). And the inspiration of below video, collage is widely used to visually represent individuals’ complex cultural identities in art and psychology fields. I am considering to organise a collage & drawing workshop to deepen the understand of my research question. However, taking into account the experience and lessons from last intervention, I would like to cover as many participants as possible and with more diverse backgrounds. At the same time, it is also considered that it should not take too long time for participants joining the intervention which will reduce their desire to attend the intervention. I am trying to use other methods to do collage to reduce the time but attract people to join.