Rich pictures for stakeholder dialogue: A polyphonic picture book

Abigail C Durrant,David S Kirk,Robyn Taylor,Diego Trujillo Pisanty,Wendy Moncur,Kathryn M Orzech

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2018.01.001

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Journal: Design Studies	Publication Date: Mar 2, 2018
Citations: 9	License type: cc-by

Affiliation: Northumbria University

Abstract

We describe the design and use of a ‘polyphonic picture book’ for engaging stakeholders and research participants with findings from an interdisciplinary project investigating how UK citizens create and manage online identities at three significant life transitions. The project delivered socio-cultural and technical findings to inform policy-making and service innovation for enhancing digital literacy in online self-representation. The picture book presented findings through multi-perspectival, fictional scenarios about experiences of life transition. We describe our use of the book with our stakeholders in five workshop settings and our evaluation of the visual format for fostering stakeholder dialogue around the findings and their transferability. This paper contributes methodological insights about using visual storytelling to scaffold interpretative, dialogical contexts of research engagement.

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We describe the design and use of a ‘polyphonic picture book’ for engaging stakeholders and research participants with findings from an interdisciplinary project investigating how UK citizens create and manage online identities at three significant life transitions
We describe our use of the book with our stakeholders in five workshop settings and our evaluation of the visual format for fostering stakeholder dialogue around the findings and their transferability

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The overarching project goal was to generate social, cultural and technical insights from this unique lifespan perspective, to inform UK policy-making and service innovation for enhancing digital literacy and enabling self-representation online To pursue this goal, the investigators sought to explore novel methods of design to disseminate the project’s interdisciplinary outputs amongst its stakeholders (in industry, Government and the public sector), increasing stakeholder www.elsevier.com/locate/destud. The investigators sought to explore novel methods of design to disseminate the project’s interdisciplinary outputs amongst its stakeholders (in industry, Government and the public sector), increasing stakeholder www.elsevier.com/locate/destud These pursuits within the project were brought together in the design of a picture book (Durrant, Trujillo Pisanty, Moncur, & Orzech, 2015) that was used as a key resource in five stakeholder workshops.

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