Andrews, Jorella G.. 2020. Interviewing Images: How visual research using IPA (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis) can illuminate the change-making possibilities of place, space, and dwelling. Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 475, pp. 20-31. ISSN 2352-5398 [Article]

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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is a qualitative method mainly used in psychology, the social sciences and health science. Beginning with processes of open question interviewing, and taking an idiographic approach, it elicits unusually rich data from persons about specific life experiences, opportunities, and challenges. In so doing, it generates flexibility of thought and feeling, and evokes unanticipated insight.

As a visual culture scholar, and inspired by the distinctly visual connotations of the word inter-view, I propose that our understanding of contemporary lived experience and our attempts at change-making might be extended if the descriptive, analytical and interpretative techniques of IPA were applied to the image-worlds (and object-worlds) that play a role in shaping us as individuals, citizens, and researchers. But is it possible to interview images without this being merely or wholly a process of projecting our own perspectives onto them?

This question has been central to a series of workshops I began developing and delivering in 2018 called ‘Using Phenomenology in Contemporary Arts Research and Pedagogy’. In this paper, I present the philosophical underpinnings for the “interviewing images” methodology I have developed and report on the techniques involved. I also foreground its decolonising potential. For purposes of demonstration, I draw on my use of this technique in early-stage research for a small-scale community-based urban development project I am hoping to initiate in the underprivileged area of the city where I live and teach.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201009.003
Keywords:	Interviewing images, Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), visual research, image-analysis, decolonising orientations, change-making
Related URLs:	https://idwell.eng.ui.ac.id/daytwo/ https://idwell.eng.ui.ac.id/2020/
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event 10 October 2020 Published 24 August 2020 Accepted
Event Location:	Department of Architecture Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
Date range:	27 - 28 October 2020
Item ID:	30882
Date Deposited:	15 Dec 2021 10:45
Last Modified:	15 Dec 2021 10:45
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/30882

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