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RGS-IBG 2014 Call for Artifacts: Scrapheap Challenge for Everyday Security
Session Organisers: Lizzie Coles-Kemp (Royal Holloway University of London) and Debi Ashenden (Cranfield University).
This session will share and explore the design and evaluation of artifacts used in innovative research methods to co-produce understandings of ‘everyday’ security. The term ‘everyday security ‘ relates to security achieved by people on their own terms without
institutional intervention to protect aspects of space and place.
Call for Artifacts
Session contributions are requested in the form of a rich visual description of the artifact and an explanatory abstract. We welcome contributions from geography, design, security or any other related areas. The artifact might be used as a research tool, engagement
tool or as a visualisation of an insight or concept etc. There is no limit to the format of artifacts but each contribution for this session should consist of a rich visual description of the artifact, together with an explanatory abstract. Contributions
could focus on, but are not limited to:
· Ways of engaging with research participants
· Approaches to data collection
· Tools for data analysis
Session Format
The session will be run using a World Café format where participants will move round the room discussing each artifact with its creator. Each selected collection of visual description, artifact and abstract will be displayed. Participant comments will be given
both verbally and in the completion of postcards. The feedback will focus on how the artifact might be evaluated in terms of its research function and its form. The postcards will be used to create a wall collage of the narrative of the session.
To Submit a Contribution
Please email a 250 word abstract and visual description of your proposed artifact by the 14th February to Debi Ashenden ([log in to unmask]) and Lizzie Coles-Kemp ([log in to unmask]).
Your abstract should explain:
(1) What the artifact is (research tool, concept, explanatory model, visualisation of an insight etc)
(2) Key features of the artifact
(3) The intended usage or purpose
(4) Why it is interesting to this conference
Please indicate any technical or spatial requirements for your artifact (power, screen, table space etc).
For further details please refer to: http://pflab.rhul.ac.uk/2014/01/11/rgsigb/
