We (Onno, Martijn en Greetje) also did a focus group, but this time in a village far away from Njombe; Igosi. We chose to do the focus group with women of different villages, therefore it took a while for we got everyone together.
In the beginning all women were a bit quiet, since it was the first time they every participated in such an exercise. We didn't anticipate that all women also would bring their children with them. On the left picture you can see how they working together and showing us with beans what they found important about their drinking water.
We also tried to understand what they find beautiful products. This proved to be difficult; the only things they found beautiful, were the ones they already knew and looked functional. We have to re-think how this can help us in our design process...
At the end of the day everybody was excited and they couldn't stop chatting while we brought them back to their villages. It was very fun to do and we learned a lot. Coming days we will report all the experiences we had the past few weeks in one single report.
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