1. | What you can expect by participating
The four stages of the archival service
Our Everyday Forms is an archival service for individuals, co-habitants and families who want their care tools documented for personal, community, and legacy purposes. It comes in the form of a two-hour interview and ‘home tour.’ It’s a service by and for Black, Brown, Indigenous, People of Color.
The care tools are defined as tools for resistance people use to navigate moments of periods of life that are displacing and/or marginalizing.
1 | Recruiting
You self-identify whether you’re a good fit for the archiving project or not. The boundaries and risks are named — like being filmed and sharing publicly, and you have an opportunity to consent or not. 🚀 Submit here.
2 | Being in the home
It’s a 2-hour home tour. You’re the host — meaning, I’m a guest in your space. I’m coming with a sequence of questions and exercises. The priority is your comfort and your story. There are periods where I need to put my facilitator hat on and clunkily set up camera and audio recording equipment throughout the two hours of the home tour.
3 | Analyzing objects and stories
After your home tour, I as the researcher, will organize, sift through, and edit the stories, photos, and video footage into a narrative.
4 | Sharing
It will be published publicly, with the purpose of sharing with your chosen community or individuals, my research community, and the general public.
Quick Links
The ethics and concrete examples of the work.
🎁 I’m a Ph.D. candidate. — What does that even mean?
📚 Free Library — Here are all the articles and book chapters I’m reading.
🤷🏽 Who needs coping objects anyways? — Examples
💆🏽 One of my own Objects — How I scrambled to cope with an incident on the street.
