Final Project Plan Draft

Draft of Final Project Plan

Rationale:

-a rationale for your chosen topic (including reflection on how the taught elements of your programme have helped you develop it)

Literature Review:

-Brief overview

Methods:

-an overview of the methods you plan to use in developing and writing up the project (including reflection on how any methods training you have taken has helped inform these)

-how gather info, lit review

-Methodology – what are u gonna look at?

Timeline:

End of May- Completed Research, Collected quotes, working on literature review and intro

June 15th- Chapter 1 / first section written

End of June- Chapter 2 / second section written

July 15th- Chapter 3 / third section written

End of July- Conclusion, writing completed

1st – 10th of August – Edit

Potential Ethical Challenges:

  • my perspective, bias & bias in academic lit used – acknowledge and outline my perspective and examine research in lit review

Mode of Representation:

a statement of the intended mode of representation you will use in the final project report

Appendix:

an appendix listing the dates of significant blog posts building to the project plan with direct links, or inline citations and a references – this will be used to make a judgement on whether you have actively engaged with the blog and made meaningful, consistent posts (in other words to assess whether you pass or fail the course; it is not included in the final word count and should include around 10 posts, although it is the quality of the posts and your integration of them into the plan which is most important)

Week 7

Methodology - Methods Training & Research

I do imagine that my Futures Project will take a qualitative approach and use discourse analysis. I also plan to potentially use an intersectional approach or look at texts through an intersectional lens.

During my undergraduate degree, when doing research for my dissertation, I did delve into phenomenology a little, due to reading a lot of academic papers about embodiment and ideas about mind-body dualism in relation to Descartes when exploring cyborgs, AI, and the metaverse (technology & the body). It was, however, an approach/topic that was quite complex and a large undertaking for me at the time, and I focused on other things in the end. So I could potentially explore it in my Futures Project.

Next, I plan to research more into my topic area (Afro-futurism, Indigenous futurism, combinations of technology and the body) and find more new areas and academic texts within it to explore, as well as find and read literature which I might want to explore. I might also search for more artworks in this area and research them — as I may use visual analysis in my final futures project — because I am interested in multimedia and the intersection of image and text. This may mean that I will also utilise art historical methodologies in my futures project such as iconographic and formalist methodologies, although I am most likely to take a majoritively biographical/contextual approach, looking at identity and history. Also, I may ask certain lecturers if they have any recommendations for where I should look for sources.

Overall, everything I am doing in my modules feeds into my learning and my approach for my futures project.