Michelle J Searle, OCT, PhD

A projective or enabling technique whereby research participants create rough collages from magazines or other visual material to represent something relevant to the research. This enforced move away from the verbal helps to access intuitive knowledge and may allow access to non-verbal aspects of the topic that would otherwise remain unarticulated and thus open them up to discussion. Collage creations are followed up with a discussion and the combination of the collage and discussion becomes data.