What discursive, social and political economic formations is this archive situated within? What are the substantive logics of this archive – its purposes and contexts? Question Set Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization
What research questions should this archive address? What data can be drawn on to answer them? Question Set Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization
What social groups and organizations are implicated in and possibly interested in the archive? Question Set Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization
What is the archive designed to push against? Are there, for example, patterns of exclusion, inequality and injustice in your problem space that the archive could begin to reorder? Question Set Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization
Does this archive aspire to create a public (following John Dewey’s arguments about the need to provoke publics into existence)? What are the intended and hoped for e|affects of this archive? Question Set Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization
How have the aims and audiences of this archive iterated over time? Question Set Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization
What are possible pathways through this archive, and how could they be narrated? In other words: what are ways this archive could be exhibited? Question Set Archive Ethnography: Conceptualization