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CLIENT
Artist Literacies Institute
ROLE
Design Research Intern
LOCATION
New York City - Remote during Covid-19
Turning hours of conversations into actionable insights and recommendations
METHODS USED
Qualitative Data Coding, Data Synthesis, Report Writing, Visual Design
United Nations invited artists and art & culture organizations to have conversations about reimagining the world post Covid-19
BACKGROUND
In honor of their 75th anniversary, the United Nations launched a global dialogue initiative in 2020 called UN75: ‘The Future is Unwritten’ to address and plan for the sustainable development of today’s pressing challenges–from the climate crisis to inequalities, new forms of violence, and rapid changes in technology and population. Artist Literacies Institute and The Future is Unwritten have partnered to help make sense of these conversations taking place globally amongst arts and culture institutions and artists to develop insightful and action oriented reports.
RESULTS
I worked with Andrew Frieband to analyze and code qualitative data from the conversations that took place, conduct research about the issues addressed and design report summaries, which were then sent to the UN.
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SYNTHESIZING THE CONVERSATIONS
Making sense of the conversations began with actively listening to the recordings, building context of the issue and making notes.
Using the technique of color-coding, I marked out dialogues with similar themes & made notes.
After listening to hours of conversations, I identified that the participants were addressing three categories
1.
Roles & Responsibilities of Artists and Artist Orgs
2.
Questions or Concerns & obstacles to creating change
3.
Possible solutions, suggestions and action steps
Putting on a lens of analysis, I looked for key themes and
patterns in the participants comments and responses to gauge
the core message they were trying to convey.
This step required my intuition as a researcher, my experience and knowledge
in the area of topic discussed and my skills of synthesis.
Making multiple passes of analysis for each category.
Synthesizing the data,
Making connections.
In order to make sense of all this data, I wanted to find out if the three categories were related in any way. Did the participants have the answers to the questions they were asking? Did they address the agenda of the meeting? Did they propose steps to take in the future?
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Summarizing with Actionable steps
Now that the content of the conversation was clear, I began putting actionable items together - ones that were proposed or spoken about in the meeting or ones that I added after synthesizing meaning out of what they were trying to convey. I categorized them specific to the target audience.
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DESIGNING THE FINAL REPORT
Finally, it was time to collate this data into a summary report for the UN to understand the participants needs, concerns and demands.
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Sample pages from the report
BIG THANKS
To Andrew for giving me this incredible learning opportunity and being the most helpful and generous mentor!
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