Methods & Guidelines
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Identify relevant materials from collections in order to inform new histories of narcotic cultures. |
How do you feel about (doing) drugs in the city? Conduct individual interviews on everyday life, and draw a colorful emotional map. |
Participartory Ideal City Mapping. Ask a small focus group (of drug users, for example) about their ideal city, and draw an ideal map together. |
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Make a DIY PartyZine to encourage discussions and generate accounts of substance use related to parties and gender. |
(Flyers, photographs, blog entries, documents related to events, descriptions of objects, etc.) |
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Observe people, nose around an area, talk to people, take photographs and make audio recordings; collect things and write down stories of what you observe. |
Visualize spatial data and analyze spatial relations between social phenomena. These systems are especially helpful for producing insightful maps. |
Give a voice to people who are under-represented in traditional written sources: drug users, friends, family, care workers and inhabitants of “narcotic spaces.” (Not yet complete, please check back for updates) |
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Collect visual material as a cultural object and representation of ethnographic knowledge, and as a method of promoting social action. (Not yet complete, please check back for updates) |