Project proposal

I’m interested in the individual stories from people inhabiting the squares around a public water feature. The easiest way to do that is obviously to ask people to draw, but the problem arises in how to obtain interesting results without dictating and controlling what people draw as that would not be a personal story from them.

Difficulties facing an entirely diagrammaticality way of surveying;

1) What kind of question would prompt the most output from occupants;

2) Is there a need to display the information qualitatively, and how to do that;

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Question #1:

Draw route taken to get to [public water feature] without using words.

I had initially been very doubtful of asking people to draw their route as I worried with the modern reliance on Google maps/GPS systems I would get a redraw of what they could remember at the time.

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Question #2:

Draw the types of people you meet en-route to the [public water feature].

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Question #3:

Draw most memorable moment in [public water feature].

The problem with this question is how to analyse the results, although it would provide the individual stories that make the “place”.

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I have located a number of interesting public water features: