Finding Byaduk: Field Notes

The Finding Byaduk creative residency is an exploratory process, aimed at producing speculations about the phenomenology of digital data representations of a landscape, and the design of interfaces and expressions to embody said representation. Part of this process was also inspired by design ethnography, and the consideration of its methodologies to articulate a picture of the site in question. The creative brief centred around a thought experiment (Dunne & Raby, 2013, p. 3) with ‘affective telepresence’ – finding means to remotely convey the qualities of a place using environmental sensors, digital connected technologies, and the design of embodied expressions and/or interactions. Finding Byaduk: Field Notes covers the formative and supporting phases of the project, focusing on capturing ethnographic observations of the town, and connecting to the eventual production of the artefacts (Khoo, 2018) as the response to the written, visual and audio recordings of Byaduk.