Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
at 11:08am
on Tuesday, 3rd January 2006
In a focus-group researchers mug-up a series of conclusions from focus-grouper's responses. The results of the workshop with hairdressers (and many others like it) will not stop with policy-wonks, but will be developed into stories about the future of the city, which will be developed by professional writers and be made publicly available through the Glasgow 2020 website. This is one of the core values of the project; that legitimate visions of a city's future are built through public imagination and disucussion - not behind closed doors in city chambers, marketing departments or for that matter, focus groups.
We're interested in hairdressers as they have an everyday intimacy with a range of different people across a city and remain an authentic voice ' 82% of hair salons remain independently run. You can read how the Sunday Times reported it here, and if you've got a dog-eared copy hanging about, they also wrote a witty editorial where they falsely accused Glasgow2020 of recommending the co-option of hairdressers into a Stasi-esque listening post for customers unwittingly confessing to fiddling their taxes.
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You can read further coverage in today's Independent here
In a focus-group researchers mug-up a series of conclusions from focus-grouper's responses. The results of the workshop with hairdressers (and many others like it) will not stop with policy-wonks, but will be developed into stories about the future of the city, which will be developed by professional writers and be made publicly available through the Glasgow 2020 website. This is one of the core values of the project; that legitimate visions of a city's future are built through public imagination and disucussion - not behind closed doors in city chambers, marketing departments or for that matter, focus groups.
We're interested in hairdressers as they have an everyday intimacy with a range of different people across a city and remain an authentic voice ' 82% of hair salons remain independently run. You can read how the Sunday Times reported it here, and if you've got a dog-eared copy hanging about, they also wrote a witty editorial where they falsely accused Glasgow2020 of recommending the co-option of hairdressers into a Stasi-esque listening post for customers unwittingly confessing to fiddling their taxes.
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You can read further coverage in today's Independent here
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