Interactive field simulations

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field site.

Each game places you inside a qualitative research encounter. The decisions you make, about how to listen, what to ask, what to do with what you find, lead to different endings. None of them are wrong. All of them are partial. While based on real field work, real dilemmas, and real experiences, we maintain annonymity through pseudonyms.

Field sites

Field Site 01

A Day in the Field

Rural Uttar Pradesh

You are studying women's unpaid labour in micro-enterprises. You have one afternoon, two interlocutors, and a research proposal that begins to come apart almost immediately. One woman started a business from ₹350. Another has been planning a stationery shop in silence for thirteen years.

45 scenes  ·  11 endings

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Field Site 02

At the Border

Punjab Cantonment, BSF

You are studying emotional labour among Border Security Force personnel. Your access was granted by a chain of command you did not initiate. One officer keeps a book with 'I want a job where I can show my creativity' in the margin. One will ask why you are here at all.

31 scenes  ·  10 endings

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