Awakening the Micro-history of Urban Cultural Development — a Research Method of Autoethnography

Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v3i1.697

Yixue Zhang

Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow G3 6RQ, Scotland, UK

Abstract

In this autoethnographic project, I use the saved photos as the starting point to record the community life in my childhood, and the oral self-life experience as a research method to record my interaction with the architecture. In order to record how to use these experiences as inspiration to help me complete the thinking process of design projects, I will use micro-historical theory as the basis of project development and explore how to use architecture as a carrier to awaken the micro-history of urban development.

Keywords

autoethnographic, micro-history, experience

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