Design Considerations

Although all storylines and emergent insights are based on the (auto-) ethnographic diaries, conducted interviews and documented activities that were part of Saskia de Wildt’s PhD research process, it is the careful maintenance of their open-ended nature that makes it possible for you to feel your own way alongside them within this space. In fact, it is by the very refusal to enclose them in conclusive findings, that my research remains responsive and alive. You can follow different cuts halfway your journey, or trail-off in response to an invitation you encounter on the way. This freedom to wayfare is performed in this knowledge-land-scape by you, and materializes through a narrative in which you take up the fictionalized role of a community-based researcher yourself.

Design consultation/collaboration

With financial support from the Queen’s University Faculty of Arts and Science, I was able to collaborate with Camilo Garcia, a visual artists and designer with a specialization in visual systems and publishing (see https://camilogarcia.info/). The final knowledge-land-scape and the following design choices were made under consultation of, and in collaboration with Camilo Garcia, who also coded the back end of the scape.

Wikimedia

Open-ended design

Community accessibility

Low bandwidth requirements.