💧 Project 2 - Data Collection

03/02/2020 - 17/02/2020 (Week 5 - Week 7)
NG MEI YING 0340563
Intercultural Design
Project 2 - Data Collection

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INSTRUCTION

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03/02/2020 (Week 5) : Japan Trip

Today, we started conducting the  real life research to meet the objectives we had set in our proposal. Below was the slides that included the places we had visited in Japan aiming to collect some useful data. Our research topic was Omoiyari known as compassion, to have a better understanding of this concept, Zi Yi, Chan Hee and me had arranged an interview on the first day in Japan. The interviewee was a local Japanese who name Yuna, she live in Japan Chiba Prefecture recently.

Fig 1.0   Interview session with Yuna (middle) at hostel

Place visited in Japan:

• Tokyo University of Technology
• 21-21 Design Sight Museum
• Mori Art Museum
• Meiji Jingu
• Sensoji Temple
• Team Lab Borderless
• Tsutaya Bookstore

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10/02/2020 (Week 6) : Proposal 2 / version 1

After coming back form Japan, we started to prepare the proposal 2 for data collection. 

Research Part 1:

Tangible Aspect:

• Product Design (Umbrella storage)
• Packaging Design (with Braille)
• Tray for change

Intangible Aspect:

• The art of giving change
• Communication
• Public space / street
• Metro station

Research Part 2:

Public spaces:

• Bookstore
• Shopping center
• Park
• Metro station
• Restaurant
• Hostel
• Others

Research Part 3:

Inheritance for local Japanese:

• Family
• Education
• Environment
• Society

Inheritance for foreigners:

• Hard to understand this conceptual value in a short period 
• Stay in Japan (for years) to experience & observe it

NOTES: Mr Asrizal said that our slides had included sufficient information that reflected to the research purpose and questions. We needed to indicate the detail information or the caption of the photos we had captured. Aside from that, we needed to transcribe the interview voice memo, summarize one message to deliver, also comparing the Japan culture we had discovered with Malaysia culture to find out the way that Malaysian to learn from this foreign culture.

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17/02/2020 (Week 7) : Proposal 2 / version 2 presentation

This Monday is our presentation day for the data collection proposal 2. After the presentation, my teammate started to discuss about the final outcome, we will start to plan and work on it.

NOTES: Mr Asrizal and Ms Anis said that we had done a great job for our proposal, they also mentioned that the ideas proposal of the final outcome was good and one thing we had to consider about was the time limitation as there was only 2 weeks left for us to complete the final outcome.