Space and Place to Think: the Contravision Approach.
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Transcript of Space and Place to Think: the Contravision Approach.
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Space and Place to Think: the Contravision Approach
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The Project
• Exploring potential interactions between ‘smart grid’ technologies and
practices in the home
• The Challenge: How to engage participants with technologies yet to be built?
• How to get participants interested?
• How to inform them of the potential technologies?
• How to encourage them to think openly and critically?
• How to get them thinking about the consequences for their own lives?
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The Approach
“Similar to stereoscopic vision, the ContraVision method can offer two
contrasting points of view for the same object, providing a perception of ‘depth’
that, just like monoscopic vision, a single representation cannot provide.”
Mancini et al. 2010
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The Process
• Four focus groups, 72 participants
• Three short films, ‘dark’ and ‘light’ versions of each
• Expert workshop to identify possible technologies
• Technologies considered alongside set of themes to generate narratives
• Deliberate use of humour and characterisation, aided by extreme utopian
and dystopian visions
• Storyboarding
• Still photography as the medium
• Assembled into montage with free software
• Narrative given through voice-over
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Feedback
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"Did the films shown today change your understanding of energy management
technologies?"
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"Do you think the films improved the follow-ing discussions or not?"
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Open Feedback• “Excellent films and good discussions.”
• “A very thought provoking afternoon. It made me recognise things that only existed at the back of my mind.”
• “An informative and entertaining afternoon.”
• “The films could perhaps have covered other energy supplies, in particular oil is the main source of heating in this village rather than electricity (there being no gas supply).”
• “The films showed only a very small part of society so they can’t easily be generalised. But several issues were mentioned, which gave good content for discussion.”
• “Good”.
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Conclusions
• Contravision approach provides a highly engaging frame
• Medium used in project required no specialist skills or equipment (microphone
excepted) to create
• Particularly suited to investigating circumstances yet to materialise in real
world settings
• Embedding technological visions in social (meaningful) contexts
• Place and space to think
• Usual methodological shortcomings of focus groups and vignettes, but raises
at least one specific question:
• How ‘open’ is the Contravision view? Is the dystopian account more
engaging, and if so what are the consequences?