Going back to London to college was helpful in inducing the vigour required to thrust the project into the next phase. …

To recap briefly → after analysing the different stories of immigration of four migrants to the UK, the need for implementing social design has been established. Social design provides an opportunity for developing community well-being by activating social activity for people, in this case, between migrants and hosts. …

After the last week of carrying directed storytelling sessions, I performed an exhaustive documentation of audio into text from the recorded videos with the help of an AI powered software called Otter.ai. …

In the last blog, social integration and its impacts on migrants’ lives was discussed along with exploring the role of design in leading social innovation. The fundamentals of ‘social design’, an emerging discipline merging sociology + service design, were also looked into. This helped me to narrow down my research…

At this point in the design process, it became imperative to reflect back for moving ahead. I tried to comprehend the meaning of design applied in the context of improving social life of migrants. As the design outcome would not be materialistically derived, it became tricky to generate clarity on…

In the next phase of exploratory research, a thorough analysis of the interviews took place. At first, I re-ran through the videos several times to grasp important information manifested in visual expressions and narrative descriptions. Later, the key details related to research goal were summed up in the form of…

The formal teaching for this course culminated on the last week of July whereby after the two months of summer holidays, we would only be required to come together on a weekly basis to share our project progress and fetch feedback from tutors and classmates. After running hither and thither…

To understand what constitutes the notion of ‘hospitality’, I began by interpreting it from different perspectives. Firstly, I read about the etymology of the word ‘hospitality’. It originated from the Latin word ‘hospes’ meaning “host”, “guest” or “stranger”. …

In no time, we found ourselves running the homestretch on the journey of MA UX. “Gear up guys, the clock is ticking” — something which our tutor used to tell us always, finally rang a bell. It meant that we had arrived at the last semester allotted to working on…