FIELD LAB
In terms of usage, the devil is in the detail… and tracking this detail and inspiring new solutions require to meet the users in real life context: from classical focus groups or interviews conducted in-vivo to long and in-depth, field interactions inspired by ethnographic approaches, we take a journey to visit houses, sneak into kitchens, dig in drawers and leverage on details of daily living people often are not aware of…
In the ISEU research project focussing the design of energy using domestic products, we start the co-design sessions with a real casting process of the participating families. As for actors of a film, they should match with the role, enjoy to challenge their energy practices, feel comfortable with the design team shadowing them, give access to their privacy for in-depth investigation, exchange pictures of their family life and became themselves investigators of their practices…
