(2/3) One way is through shared daily learning activities 👩🏫📚 including:
📓📝 Journaling our first encounters with fieldwork sites and comparing with nineteenth-century diary entries from colonial surveyors
📸😮 Documenting unexpected moments through a series of photographs
✍️🎨 Sketching artefacts and surrounding nature at field sites
🖋️📜 Writing haiku verses reflecting on our day in the field
🚗⚡️Building miniature models of telegraph lines and transport (think palm-sized lancia lambda) in situ
(3/3) 🌈💭 Collecting and reflecting on the significance of objects across the colour spectrum at a particular field site
🧭🗺️ Creatively mapping our routes at the end of each trip (see photo!)
Each exercise encourages us to think differently about what we’ve come across in the field, question assumptions about life on the telegraph line, and reflect on our biases and unique #research backgrounds. There are no “right” answers 😊
🔗 Learn more in our new paper here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14696053251369550
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