When thinking about the survey I want to roll
out and the kind of research/response I want to gain from the audience / people
who partake, I have made a few notes to keep in mind throughout the process
from start to finish:
Possible survey Names / title:
- Are you Wavy?
- Feeling Wavy?
- Feeling Hazy?
Survey format:
- Digital?: online digital survey, for participants to interact with via an online website/platform such as:
Physical?: book, pamflet, leaflet, single page
flyer? - anything more cleaver?
Could combine interactive elements, answers from survey and incorporate into an informative physical book (in answer to the module specifications)
Format of survey and/or book itself could affect/impact the results and information conveyed - in turn affecting my
visual response resolved from this survey depending on how I approach and apply my found
information and first hand research.
IDEA 1
Initial idea: I could create an illustrated survey "box",
"pack", "pamflet" in which participants are asked to take
part in a survey, choose answers to questions most relevant to their personals views, experiences of psychoactive substances and their opinion of its impact
on creativity and creative culture as a whole. - Directly linking to my CoP2 essay & module themes.
Concept
Format:
- Survey box
- Survey pack
- Survey Baggy
- Survey book & boardgame
Contents:
- Concise
information/ "about" and "how to" complete my survey
printed/illustrated onto a single page flyer.
- Individual questions
aimed at the participant, printed/illustrated onto separate individual
"slides" / cards / tiles.
Survey Question Cards:
Each question I want answering, could take the
form of separate cards. Each card would display a different answer to be chosen
by the participant taking into consideration which answer is most appropriate
to them.
> example: (note to participant in rules of
survey: "please choose the card with the most appropriate answer to
you")
Q1: Do you feel psychoactive substances have an
impact on creativity?
• Answer card A
Yes
• Answer card B
No
• Answer card C
Don't know / PASS
Q2: To what extent do you feel psychedelic
substances have had an impact on our creative culture?
• Answer card A
Greatly
• Answer card B
Some
• Answer card C
None
• Answer card D
Unsure
- Each question would be printed on all its corresponding answer
cards, with all writing appearing on only one side of answer tile/card.
- On the opposite side of the tile/card could be
a segment of a what would be a much larger illustrated image (marbled prints & rorschach ink blot test development artwork??).
- Each card would theoretically
act as a jigsaw piece. Each answer card for each specific question would have
the same segment of artwork printed on the back of the card, however each
answers artwork slide/tile would be printed in a different colour scheme (reflective
of the answer.)
Answer "key":
"Yes", "Greatly"
= brightly
coloured, striking, bold artwork
• An unsure answer / survey Q result such as:
"Maybe", "Don't know",
"Some"
= half colour, half black and white artwork
• A more negative answer (suggestive of a lesser psychoactive impact on participant) / survey Q result such as:
"No", "None",
"Never"
= black and white colour palette for the artwork
> i.e
• If one participant takes the survey and chooses
1 answer card most relevant to them when answering that question, all chosen
answer cards collected would fit together like a jigsaw to create a much larger
image (out of the artwork imagery printed on the back of each answer card).
• Depending on how the participant answers, the
answer card that they choose will have artwork on the back of that card in a
specific palette. (such as they key above)
• For answers conveying the "most"
impact such as yes, highly, greatly, always, very etc - the artwork for these
answer cards could be in full colour - suggestive of being the most
"psychedelic" or the most impacted by the substance.
• For answers conveying the "medium"
amount of impact such as some, unsure, dont know or sometimes - the artwork for
these answer cards could be completed in a half and half palette (half black
and half colour) to show the mid range in response.
• For answers conveying the "least"
impact such as no, never, none, - the artwork for these answer cards could be
completed in black and white only. This could help convey the participants
answer to this question as being the least impacted by psychedelics / the most
against psychedelic substances.
• Once all the answer cards have been chosen for
each of the questions in the survey by the participant, I can collect them up
and once turned over to reveal the artwork on the reverse side - the image and
portrait of the participant based on their answers should take shape. Hopefully
conveying and portraying the overall impact of psychoactive substances on that
particular participant.
• For instance if the participant has had lots of
history with a specific substance and feels that psychedelic experience and
substance have played a large part in influencing our creative culture....the
final image created out of their answer cards would be very colourful and psychedelic.
• If a participant who took part in the survey and
answered all of the questions suggestive of not being influenced by these
substances or seeing them as being influential in anyway, the participant would
have answered and chosen cards form the "least" side of the spectrum
(such as no, none, never, etc) therefore these answer cards would mostly
consist of black and white artwork. Hopefully illustrating the little impact
that psychoactive substances have had on that participant.
• This technique of visualising and interpreting
my survey results could just be used for individual participants as explained
above - producing a visual portrait of the participant and the impact
psychedelics has had on them.
....or this could be rolled out to as many people
as possible so that when all of the results/answer cards are collected and
artwork arranged, I could then see visually and on a much larger scale, see how
much psychedelic substances have impacted all my participants collectively -
hopefully being more reflective of broader societies view as a whole. Could do
this for specific age ranges, from specific cities, cultures, etc and see any
patterns in my findings.
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In summary, the answer cards from all
participants would all be joined together to make a much larger jigsaw-like
image - hopefully swaying more towards either a fuller in colour image (meaning
more people are more positively impacted by psychedelics) or a more black and
white image suggestive of the little impact psychedelics has had on the participant, as well as on society and creativity. Either way a clear result from the chosen answer cards when arranged together, would be straightforward to see thanks to the little or high
amount of colour appearing in the final image/tiled artwork overall.