Collaborative Field Work Project | Site: Channapatna, Karnataka, IN
Collaborative Field Work Project | Site: Channapatna, Karnataka, IN
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Project Background
The COwHKI (Community-Owned Health Knowledge Infrastructure) project was initiated by Naveen Bagalkot in the region of Channapatna, Karnataka. The project aims to provide low-cost, open-sourced, and locally configured elements by the women's health navigators in the area. They are supported and trained by MAYA (Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness). They intend on archiving health-related knowledge for a better understanding of the community in the future. The project also involves other stakeholders, like a few organizations - Janastu, Design Beku, Aasha Workers, the health navigators, MAYA Health, and the Channapatna community.
The COwHKI (Community-Owned Health Knowledge Infrastructure) project was initiated by Naveen Bagalkot in the region of Channapatna, Karnataka. The project aims to provide low-cost, open-sourced, and locally configured elements by the women's health navigators in the area. They are supported and trained by MAYA (Movement for Alternatives and Youth Awareness). They intend on archiving health-related knowledge for a better understanding of the community in the future. The project also involves other stakeholders, like a few organizations - Janastu, Design Beku, Aasha Workers, the health navigators, MAYA Health, and the Channapatna community.
Interpretation
The project is a product of the involvement of communities and individuals at every step of design and development. There’s an understanding among the different stakeholders involved in terms of skill sets knowledge, accessibility, and involvement. The location develops a project environment for the availability of the internet and the localized medical jargon. Combining the two, the project is led by various people and organizations who contribute on various levels in order to serve the shared goal of creating a database of health-related knowledge and offering free or inexpensive internet. As was stated and observed, communities and individuals frequently engage in cooperation in terms of decision-making, learning, and collaboration in terms of bringing everything together to work toward the same goal. Through the project space, I'd like to understand and document how the collaborative framework functions within multiple people or organizations and the factors of interdependency and productivity in a collaborative environment. This may be looked into as how cooperation and collaboration occurs among a couple of groups of people or organizations toward the success of a project and how collaboration is viewed as a process toward an outcome.
The project is a product of the involvement of communities and individuals at every step of design and development. There’s an understanding among the different stakeholders involved in terms of skill sets knowledge, accessibility, and involvement. The location develops a project environment for the availability of the internet and the localized medical jargon. Combining the two, the project is led by various people and organizations who contribute on various levels in order to serve the shared goal of creating a database of health-related knowledge and offering free or inexpensive internet. As was stated and observed, communities and individuals frequently engage in cooperation in terms of decision-making, learning, and collaboration in terms of bringing everything together to work toward the same goal. Through the project space, I'd like to understand and document how the collaborative framework functions within multiple people or organizations and the factors of interdependency and productivity in a collaborative environment. This may be looked into as how cooperation and collaboration occurs among a couple of groups of people or organizations toward the success of a project and how collaboration is viewed as a process toward an outcome.
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On Site Activities | Forms of Engagement:
Shadowing Activity - Visiting clients’ houses to understand their relationship with the health navigators and their work.
Draw your experience activity with Ramakkah (the field coordinator), to understand her involvement in COWKI and MAYA Health.
Helping/Directing the health navigators with technology, use of PAPAD - for annotation and uploading the information collected.
Planning and understanding their goals towards the Public Engagement Event : an engagement to engage people in the work done by the team (Health Havigators, Developers, Students and organizations) - turned into a speculative activity
Shadowing Activity - Visiting clients’ houses to understand their relationship with the health navigators and their work.
Draw your experience activity with Ramakkah (the field coordinator), to understand her involvement in COWKI and MAYA Health.
Helping/Directing the health navigators with technology, use of PAPAD - for annotation and uploading the information collected.
Planning and understanding their goals towards the Public Engagement Event : an engagement to engage people in the work done by the team (Health Havigators, Developers, Students and organizations) - turned into a speculative activity
Connecting the Dots
what?
Studying Collaboration: learning about everyone’s involvement and how the collected information can be presented to provide secondary research material
how?
the idea is to curate and document my understanding to aid the upcoming student researchers.
a mode of documentation.
why?
the amount of time that went into it will save a lot of time for the next batch of researchers, and provide the ground level information through the guide.
who?
The accessible stakeholders:
MAYA Health, Ramakkah (the field coordinator), Health Navigators, Channapatna community and us students involved.
who?
The accessible stakeholders:
MAYA Health, Ramakkah (the field coordinator), Health Navigators, Channapatna community and us students involved.
how?
the idea is to curate and document my understanding to aid the upcoming student researchers.
a mode of documentation.
what?
Studying Collaboration: learning about everyone’s involvement and how the collected information can be presented to provide secondary research material
why?
the amount of time that went into it will save a lot of time for the next batch of researchers, and provide the ground level information through the guide.
Defining the Target Audience:
The output aims to disseminate the information gathered about the chosen stakeholders, primarily the COWKI members I've met in the last few weeks. The project aims to return information to student researchers and others who will visit the site as researchers and learners in the future. The output may act as a secondary research source for the next batch of student researchers.
As a result, upcoming student researchers are the primary focus of the output.
The output aims to disseminate the information gathered about the chosen stakeholders, primarily the COWKI members I've met in the last few weeks. The project aims to return information to student researchers and others who will visit the site as researchers and learners in the future. The output may act as a secondary research source for the next batch of student researchers.
As a result, upcoming student researchers are the primary focus of the output.
Concept
Content Creation + Interactive Informative Experience
The experience depicts an ecosystem map of all the COWKI project stakeholders and processes. Because of the non-linear nature of the project and the people involved, an ecosystem map was chosen for documentation.
This will assist in learning about the project's working model and the individuals involved.
The concept stems from scenic examples like Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter and Bandersnatch Movie of Black Mirror which inspired me to think towards the concept of documentation, and how the information should/can be presented in a format which is not leading the reader/student too much.
The experience depicts an ecosystem map of all the COWKI project stakeholders and processes. Because of the non-linear nature of the project and the people involved, an ecosystem map was chosen for documentation.
This will assist in learning about the project's working model and the individuals involved.
The concept stems from scenic examples like Marauder's Map from the Harry Potter and Bandersnatch Movie of Black Mirror which inspired me to think towards the concept of documentation, and how the information should/can be presented in a format which is not leading the reader/student too much.
Content Curation
Factual + Experiential Information
The factual information was extracted from the resources forwarded by the coordinators. Few included reports of the project, the books which were handed over to the stakeholders as a reference document for their work.
In terms of experiencial information, all of it was curated during or after site visits, aligning with my positionality and reflections.
The factual information was extracted from the resources forwarded by the coordinators. Few included reports of the project, the books which were handed over to the stakeholders as a reference document for their work.
In terms of experiencial information, all of it was curated during or after site visits, aligning with my positionality and reflections.
Introducing the Experience!
The output aims to disseminate the information gathered about the chosen stakeholders, primarily the COWKI members I've met in the last few weeks. The project aims to return information to student researchers and others who will visit the site as researchers and learners in the future. The output may act as a secondary research source for the next batch of student researchers.
As a result, upcoming student researchers are the primary focus of the output.
Introducing the Experience!
The concept of documenting the collected information for the next generation of researchers stems from how much was 'lost' in translation while on site visits due to language barriers.
The final product focuses on the people, processes, and how they are interconnected. The interaction's main ecosystem map discusses this.
The ability to switch to 'lived experiences' by clicking the yellow button at the bottom helps filter the experiential and factual information in the map.
The concept of documenting the collected information for the next generation of researchers stems from how much was 'lost' in translation while on site visits due to language barriers.
The final product focuses on the people, processes, and how they are interconnected. The interaction's main ecosystem map discusses this.
The ability to switch to 'lived experiences' by clicking the yellow button at the bottom helps filter the experiential and factual information in the map.
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