Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Research

This two-part workshop combined theory and practice to support arts, humanities, and social sciences students engaged in any or all of the following:

• in-depth research that involves interviewing persons and analyzing/interpreting the outcomes of those encounters
• the slow, careful, and evocative close reading of texts
• in-depth, multi-perspectival and multi-sensorial investigations of images, spaces, and other experiential phenomena.

As such, the sessions covered:
• the key principles of phenomenological research
• the practice of "radical de-scription"
• the basic procedures of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)
• the application of phenomenology/IPA to image-based, object-based, spatial, or environmental research - the notion of "interviewing" images, objects, spaces, scenarios. images, objects, spaces, scenarios.