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Design Lessons from Life –
An evolution of participatory action research and design methodologies for practice
based research.
Designing for Creativity and Innovation in Informal Science Learning
The problem (need)…
The hypothesis…
Methodology: Participatory Action Research
PAR
PAR for a multidisciplinary, practitioner/researcher project
Developing all aspects of the project through PAR
Supporting PAR
PAR for wider collaboration
Design Thinking Approach
The design workshop Applying design practices - user journeys
A defined problem to develop
Practitioner considerations - Needs to be safe for unsupervised public use with no protruding components or sharp edges - Needs to be comfortably usable by the target audience (in our case children and family groups) and by those in wheelchairs - The exhibit needs to work as an exhibit outside the research context and therefore it should not exclude (and should be equally as engaging to) those who do not want to take part in the study or fall outside of the desired participant demographic - The aesthetics and materials should match the overall exhibition design
Ideation and iteration…
Researcher considerations
- Needs to allow all experimental conditions (solo, social, and collaborative) to occur in the same location, to ensure consistency of data across conditions (for physical, digital, and hybrid versions).
- The exhibit and surrounding space should be as controlled as possible to limit variables.
- It should be easy to find digital video footage data where ethical consent has been granted.
- Needs to meet ethical standards for submitting to Research Ethics Committees
An Interactive Exhibit Pod
In-built digital research tools for automatic data collection
In-built digital research tools for automatic collection of ethical consent
Hardware and software
Online open source survey software
Outcomes and outputs
Impact: see it in other science centres, and do it for yourself!
Creativescienceatlife.com
Conclusions
Thanks & Q’s?
Dr Hannah Rudman @hannahrudman [email protected] Dr Claire Bailey-Ross @clairey_ross [email protected] creativescienceatlife.com