Content Mind-mapping

 Visualising the information while listening to the audio documentation in Agumbe.

How do you communicate:
Once and Only
Compact patches
Space and Places
activities in the micro-ecosystem
Symbiosis

and how do you represent the relationships?

 Getting inspiration from the content for the form

See Think Wonder

A fun design tool to imagine the grasslands.

Stakeholder Mapping

Is the stakeholders the audience?
What are LTG(long term goals) and STG(short term goals) and hence defining the audience on the rate of impact?
Is it possible to target a wider audience since the information is generic?

Can we cater first to the primary stakeholders that is the Agumbe village and then to the wider audience?

My attempt to do an offering map.

How do we offer the goal to the target and why?


Some conclusions,

SWOT (Strength Weakness Opportunities and Threats)
Swot analysis for a few media

A few points under strengths, weakness and opportunities,

Data Collection

Methods used to collect data:

• Empathizing with the researchers by performing short exercises on observing and documenting in the field for long hours.
• Field observation
• Cognitive Mapping
• Current maps
• Interviews
• Data collection through notes, pictures, sketches
• Audio and Visual Documentation

Cognitive and Participatory Mapping with the researchers on the grasslands

Notes

Books

Why the grasslands?

•  Important habitats for many plant and animal species 
•  Ecological significance by being an important food source for fauna 
•  Grasslands are under the biggest threat worldwide 
•  Research has been done for the past five 

Starting Field Research

On the 17th July we traveled to Agumbe for our filed research. 
At ARRS, Dhiraj and Santa were the researchers whom we worked with.

In the first two days we interviewed Dhiraj, trying to understand various factors such as
How is field research carried out?
How do they document?
What tools they use?
How do they analyse data recorded?
ARRS projects
When does their research get validated?
Reports and representations published  
Gaps and Need by the researchers
How we are designers and artist can contribute?


"Any research starts with a question"

This maps out, all the possible steps involved between when you ask a 

question and the research is published. It helped us to highlight the areas 
where we as artist and designers can intervene.

Context Panorama

Asking the five ‘w’ on enriching the documentation and exploring terms such as enhancing, biodiversity, documentation etc.

Why is it necessary to enrich data?
Where (areas of possibilities) can documentation be involved?
What can be documented?
How to enrich data?
Who will be involved? 
When can data be enriched?