I kind of had trouble to understand this text completely, but after reading it a second time, I think I got it. As I understood it, this text is about making older age groups more present in shaping their communities.
At first, I didn’t really get why they wouldn’t use scientific methods. But after reading the text again it made sense to me, because with these scientific methods you would get more tailored answers. They didn’t want to get tailored answers, because these are just catered to some specific themes or problems, so to say. It’s important to leave a possibility to accept all kind of different results, because one can learn something from each result, especially the unconventional ones.
I liked how the designers wanted to encourage a discussion, without dominating it, but still had a sence of control over shaping the probes as interventions.
While designing these probes, they drove inspiration from Dadaism, Surrealism and Situationists.
The quotes, that stuck the most with me:
This text is about a method called bodystorming. While bodystorming, you imagine what it would be like if the product existed and act accordingly. It is interesting to see how bodystorming is applied in the case studies shown, or how it can be applied in different scenarios. I can see how bodystorming provides immediate feedback to generated design ideas. As I see it, bodystorming can be best used, when we need to see the immediate reaction to or interaction with new design ideas or systems introduced to people. This helps to get immediate feedback on how different products work in different settings and how we can improve them to fit into these different settings.
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