Project Planning

Isaiah

Hey,

I want to adopt and extend the project one group did discussing the political and social influences underlying people's daily commute on the train to that of buses, perhaps cycling and Uber.

Basically, each one of us would be assigned to a mode of transport to explore the everyday life of workers providing the services as well as the experiences of using them for daily commuters. The practical elements of this project would mainly comprise of interviews and surveys, although more ambitious approaches are welcome. I think that any research or statistics included in our blog posts should be driven and evaluated by our empirical findings, as I find that despite its dominance in official studies the quantitative is insufficient in understanding the complexities of everyday life.

Let me know what you guys are saying for this project.

Tasha

Heya, 

The idea sounds really good and I’m on board but I just wanted to know how we plan to make this an intervention rather than just research?

Isaiah

Something along the lines of speaking to people who are a part of our everyday lives who we never speak to. It could be from talking to fellow commuters or workers in the modes of transport mentioned.

I'm not too keen on that, myself, but perhaps that's the point of highlighting the 'banality' of everyday life and the challenge of "intervention", although, to be honest, I am strugging to understand what intervention demands.

Can our intervention be as simple as talking to commuters, acknowledging a bus driver or making conversation with your Uber driver? Or does "intervention" require us to, for example, do something more demanding like create a score system for each mode of transport based on their levels of sociability?

Tasha

I’m not to sure either about what intervention can be classed as but the idea of the scoring system doesn’t sound too bad? Or something along those lines.  

Shall one of us create the blog? cause we get graded on our contributions and discussions.


Hamza

Sounds like a solid idea👍🏽

In terms of interventions could it be that we our selves maybe take peculiar routes to Univeristy?

As in we mix up our routes for something different?

Isaiah

Tasha, I have created the blog.

The score system for each mode of transport based on their levels of sociability seems the most effective intervention so far. All agree? 

I think by doing something peculiar like walking a long distance to university instead of using public transport could be another good intervention in response to recent public transport cuts, maybe. Or do you mean we each take separate routes to each other to uni, Hamza?

We are not limited to one intervention, are we?

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