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Brief

We were asked to as a group collectively map the ways people

have developed strategies to adapt to COVID related lockdown; Research

within their professional and/or personal lives.

We were given five target groups and were to choose one to focus

on;

1. Early learners

2. Home-carers

3. People of physical/social disadvantage

4. People who have experience loss

5. Older adults

Information Gathering

Individually we were asked to engage with a user (from within your

family/friendship network) for an ethics-based approach to data After choosing the target group (early learners), I interviewed an SNA from a primary school to get an understanding of the new

collection. Find out how the users life had been affected by COVID system put in place because of COVID.

and to sketch provocative, emotional & playful solutions; which

address subject need. I asked for her to talk me through a normal day for her and was astonished at the changes that were made. During the interview I

asked three major questions;

Chosen group How had her life changed because of COVID?
How was school effected?

How was the school supporting the children?
I chose the target group of early learners. It would be an
opportunity to learn how schools adapted to the pandemic and

their current counter measures, along with discovering any ways After gathering the information, those with the same target group were to get together (in groups of 4-5) to show all the

to upgrade their current system. information gathered and compile it.