Pink- Chapter 5: Articulating Emplaced Knowledge

Following Chapter 2, Pink analyzes the process of interviewing while incorporating place. She describes an interview as a "multi sensory event and a context of emplaced knowing." It stands for a representation of an experienced reality rather then an objective reality. Researchers, especially ethnographers use different tactics to get the legitimate results and experience they are longing for. Sensorially is vital to an interview. It has to establish a respectable, ongoing relationship with the interviewees, freeing them up and making their voice be heard in the easiest way possible. Listening and allowing people to talk back, in their own "place" allows for a deeper understanding of behavioral habits and culture differences. "We need t recognize the performative qualities of social life and talk," as Pink states, to have a well accomplished interview and results. The performance is embodied in the individual due to their surrounding and past, present and future goals and events. The place upon which an interview will be performed is very important as well. Interviewees use everyday symbols from their life, such as tea, coffee, a walk at a familiar park, to trigger memories, apply their senses, to familiarize the interviewee of their everyday life. This will bring a new perceptive on the ethnographer and give a deeper understanding of who their subject really is. "An interview creates a place in which to reflect, define and communicate about experience. Many researchers have studied and discovered that when interviewing, the right place, the right surrounding, and multisensoral communication, as in use of different mediums, allows the interviewer to really be able to express them selves, and for the interviewee to really be able to understand and put themselves in the other persons shoes. Some skills cannot be expressed verbally, such as gardening, because senses such as sight and taste are used. Therefore, the interviewee has to place themselves in that surrounding, and learn form the skill itself. The complexities of communication and relationships are expressed in this article, opening up new opportunities and suggestions for further research. People are often silent or intimidated to really express their feelings. When place is added in the mix, this creates an outlet of expression, where senses, memories and knowledge help and enhance the communicative process. This article was very helpful and is to be kept in mind when communicating in our everyday basis. To have a full story of the other's experience we should not stay to the conformist way of interviewing, but broaden the opportunities that could exist.