ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses primarily on the people and social roles involved in research during the design process, with emphasis on sampling strategies (types and sizes) and ways to communicate with research participants. Also included in this chapter is a focus on how the positionality and reflexivity of the designer or architect matters in the process of ethical data collection, sampling, and analysis. In this chapter, the author also notes the importance of considering how and whether participants in the research are compensated, and how power and inequalities between groups of people (clients, funders, designers, users, other stakeholders) matter throughout the research and design process.
