Mark's class exercise

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Mapping the collection

At this point my usergroup is all the night workers/walkers in Rotterdam. So I sorted out the art place that fit to each specific type of worker/walker.

User stereotype

1.1 Revisit the first exercise (mapping of you & the other). What are the assumptions you (still) have about the ‘user group’? How were they debunked or confirmed?
In the first exercise, i decided to focus more on more “quiet” people rather than the clubbers. I considered them as a depressed, stressed out and mature person.

1.2 Write down your personal interest in this group? What are you curious about? How do you relate to this group (positive of negative); do you want to be part of it, do you admire them, are you more negative about them?
These users fits me the most since I am more into deep thinking and being alone sometimes at night. I really want to dig into this type of people because they (cleaner, taxi driver, doctor,etc) are contributing to the better life, by working overnight, in peace, which is the part of them that I admire.

2.1 Which existing stereotypes have you found about your group? Describe them.
The people who have their nightshift/nightwork are mostly considered as poor people, or have finacial problems or unstable jobs. Very late night walker usually be misunderstood as thief, or addiction, homeless person.

2.2 Fragmentation and Fetishized: Which objects (e.g. food, products, clothes, part of the body) are used to stereotype with? Where did you find them? In which shape, form or media (jokes, sayings, news, tv, politics, shops, history, education,…)
I think it may be comes from the TV news because they often talk about crime rate increase in the night or part of our education, like do not walk alone in the dark unless you do something illegal, or you have mental illness. Also people consider night worker as porverty since working overnight can give you better salary.

3.1 Who spreads these stereotypes about your usergroup? What do you assume their intention is? Did you find examples of discrimination, ongoing conflicts, historic events or other injustices where stereotypes are used to control or overpower your ‘user group’? Which system of oppression is it part of (racism, classism, agism, sexism)?
People with stable job, parents talk with their children, social media. This can also be some kind of class discrimination.

Mapping the collection

Mapping the user

After Mark's feedback session, I realized my user group was way to broad, so I narrowed down it to the NIGHT BAR/CLUB WORKER IN ROTTERDAM.

Then I made these diagrams. It shows the art space that close to the night bars/clubs in many area of Rotterdam. I also divided the art into two types, the one that fit to simple person like cleaner, cooker, sever,... and the other one is for bartender, dj,...who are likely to have an artistry mind

When mapping the new collection, I also came of with the connection between my group of user and Noah/Seven's user. There maybe a contrary between them but somehow they can't survive without the other. So this is like a win-win situation, they need each other.

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