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Quotations from the interviews have been placed directly in the drawings inside cartoon bubbles, essentially at the places where they were collected. This double process — thus associates what was said with the bodily gestures of the speaker and the context in her or she spoke. It allows for a simultaneous and connected vision of measurable quantities and perceived qualities and — potentially — for a drawing together of structure / expert and empirical / quotidian ways of knowing. summer heat...) 3) the evocation of « scenes » or « decors » of summertime (old people on park benches, young people on the banks the banks of the river...).

Figure 8 Quotations from the interviews have been placed directly in the drawings inside cartoon bubbles, essentially at the places where they were collected. This double process — thus associates what was said with the bodily gestures of the speaker and the context in her or she spoke. It allows for a simultaneous and connected vision of measurable quantities and perceived qualities and — potentially — for a drawing together of structure / expert and empirical / quotidian ways of knowing. summer heat...) 3) the evocation of « scenes » or « decors » of summertime (old people on park benches, young people on the banks the banks of the river...).

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