Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry – Bonus 4 – Yesenia's Story Objective: Share a co-created research artifact that there wasn’t room in the main narrative to discuss in more depth. Interviewee: Yesenia Interviewers: Hannah & Sam Editing & Production: Kyle Additional Music: “Curiosity” by Lee Rosevere via bandcamp.com (CC BY 3.0)
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Bonus 3 – Pilot
Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry – Bonus 3 – Pilot Objective: Share a research account from the pilot project that served as a kind of “proof of concept” of what I eventually produced in the main study and narrative. Episode premiered: February 22, 2019
Bonus 2 – Colleague Chat with James Nagle
Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry – Bonus 2 – Colleague Chat with James Nagle Objective: Share a conversation with a religious education researcher worker in a similar area about our ideas and shared interests. Interview conducted: November 2, 2019 Interviewee: James Nagle Interviewer: Kyle Oliver Production & Editing: Kyle Oliver & Erin Wiens St.…
Bonus 1: Tapestry Guiding Principles Story
Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry – Bonus 1 – Tapestry Guiding Principles Story Objective: Share an extended ethnographic immersion in the form of the entire recording of an important moment from the study’s field work, briefly excerpted in the main narrative. Field recording produced: October 19, 2019
Chapter 4: Conversations with Artifacts
Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry – Ch 4 – Conversations with Artifacts Objective: Conclude the overall account; offer narrative answer to Research Question 2 (“The Storytellling”); provide additional explanation of concentric analytic methods in the respective projects; discuss relevant forms of closure and continuing collaboration. Preliminary Draft Completed: March 11, 2022 Rough Cut Assembled: March 18, 2022…
Chapter 3: Empathetic Engagement
Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry – Chapter 3 – Empathetic Engagement Objective: Advance the overall account; provide preliminary overview of research data and methods; offer narrative answer to Research Question 3 (“The Researcher”); explore how a significant research turning point and its lingering emotional impact illustrates a theory of meaning that Digital Stories significantly leverage.…
Chapter 2: Space Is a Social Practice
Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry – Ch 2 – Space Is a Social Practice Objective: Advance the overall account; briefly introduce Team Z; offer a narrative answer to Research Question 1 (“The Community”); set up, develop, and explore the idea of “faith-adjacent” space. Preliminary Draft Completed: July 8, 2021 Rough Cut Assembled: January 2,…
Chapter 1: No Group, Only Group Formation
Kyle Matthew Oliver · Becoming Tapestry – Ch 1 – No Group, Only Group Formation Objective: Introduce the project and research site as a whole; the purpose and approach of this account; myself as researcher, storyteller, and faith leader; some relevant social framing and theory; and two of the story’s other central characters, Hannah and…
Summary of Subsequent Outings
As I reached the period of time for which I had consent to make field recordings with participants (October 17, 2019, and following, depending on the type of event and who was participating), this act of public analysis and documentation proved too time-consuming to pursue comprehensively. Transcripts and audio files of “outing”- rather than “memo”-length…
Meeting: Facilitator Training Lunch, Reflections on the Move
Posted on Author kylePosted in Apparatus, Communion, Disruption, Educational Practices, Faith-Adjacent, Justice, Logistics, Partners, Pastor, Powell Gardens, Presence, Producer, Relational Practices, Researcher, Spatiality, Storytelling, Trauma
I met Hannah and Sam at a deli in Powell Gardens after a morning of hustling around. I thankfully remembered before I left the house that I would need to go to a local music store beforehand to buy an XLR cable to use with my new shotgun microphone, since today would be the first…