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Interrogating rapid design ethnography : a strategy for exploring the indigenous visual vernaculars of the Ghanaian Adinkra symbols

dc.contributor.advisorReyburn, Duncan
dc.contributor.postgraduateMashigo, Kgomotso
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-16T06:05:48Z
dc.date.available2016-02-16T06:05:48Z
dc.date.created2016-04
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.descriptionMini Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2016.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study introduces rapid design ethnography as a research strategy that may be used in design as an alternative to conventional ethnography. It interrogates this strategy by means of a study of the Ghanaian Adinkra symbols. Adinkra is an indigenous graphic language that carries specific cultural narratives that embody proverbs and or poetic messages. In view of this, this study discusses how a collaboration between ethnography (and rapid ethnography) and design can be merged to create appropriate visual communication with specific reference to this indigenous visual vernacular. The study also highlights the evolution of rapid ethnographic techniques in comparison to conventional ethnography, as well as the way that these techniques may be of assistance to both designer and ethnographer.en_ZA
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_ZA
dc.description.degreeMA
dc.description.departmentVisual Artsen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMashigo, K 2016, Interrogating rapid design ethnography : a strategy for exploring the indigenous visual vernaculars of the Ghanaian Adinkra symbols, MA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51379>
dc.identifier.otherA2016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/51379
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.subjectAdinkra Symbolsen_ZA
dc.subjectVisual Vernacularsen_ZA
dc.subjectVisual Design Communicationen_ZA
dc.subjectRapid Ethnographyen_ZA
dc.subjectRapid Design Ethnographyen_ZA
dc.subjectDesign Ethnographyen_ZA
dc.subjectDesign Reseachen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.titleInterrogating rapid design ethnography : a strategy for exploring the indigenous visual vernaculars of the Ghanaian Adinkra symbolsen_ZA
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_ZA

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