Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Pre-Event Exercise for Participants

Thank you again for signing up for this experience.
We are very excited you have decided to participate!

The following is an exercise that can help you get the most out of this Project.
It isn't mandatory, but will help you.

Please go buy 4 things.

  • As you go about purchasing these things think about/observe/record;
  • What the object(s) mean to you;
  • Who you are buying it for;
  • Where you're buying it (e.g.,store, machine, street vendor);
  • Who you're buying it from (salesperson/self-checkout);
  • What were the steps to buying.


*What to buy:*
1. Buy stamps for mailing your bills, or a monthly transit pass.
2. Buy your kids some pens, pencils, erasers, or notebooks for school, orbuy some needed underwear or socks for your partner or close friend.
3 Buy some of your own favorite music or if you collect things, something that you can add to your collection.
4. Buy some wine or food that you can share with some friends.

These are items which represent 4 shopping ecologies and can help us start to think and feel our way through different kinds of experiences that people can have with buying things.

After you buy each of these things please write a sentence or two down about each experience.You might also take pictures on your phone or/and bring in pictures from magazines ,newspapers the internet.

Please bring your observations with you on Friday.

*Please note: *If you don't have a chance to complete this exercise it's fine.
Your purchasing observations from the past will serve you well.

If you would like to read more about shopping ecologies please go tohttp://argus-acia.com/white_papers/ethnography.html

Thanks again,

The Team







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