Forgery
Evidencing has become a widely used design method to visualise and present intangible aspects of future solutions and scenarios[1]. From the tradition of a “False Document” its goal is to fool the reviewer of the evidence to think it is true[2]. If the outcome of this review is positive, if the reviewer believes in the evidence and also think it is good it might verify the validity of the concept that was evidenced.
Rapid Development
The method allows for relative rapid production and creates, if successful, a way of experiencing a future concept, product or service without using lots of time on a functional prototype. The choice to make a fictional blog is a consequence of writing all of the process in a blog format and also the success of evidences throughout the process.
Discussion Seeds
The use of evidences in the blog format has shown to me that this is a great opportunity to create discussion outside of the school. This can be exploited even more effectively by posting the evidences to popular social bookmark sites (where users rate the bookmarks) such as digg.com and reddit.com. Thay will give you thousands of visitors if you break through the noise of the other bookmarks.
My intention by including the “family home” as a context in the start was to make the result easily accessible to occasional readers I think this combination of methods suits the project well.
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