#author("2026-11-05T15:39:22+09:00","default:board","board") #author("2026-11-05T15:39:46+09:00","default:board","board") *Micro-Phenomenological Interviewing in Installation Art Making ***—An Example of Investigating a Moment When a Spatial Composition Came to “Feel Right” ***Lisa Gutscher （受付：2026.06.20 採用：2026.11.04） ~ ***Abstract As art and design research engages embodied, tacit, and practice-based forms of knowledge, a methodological challenge concerns how the experiential unfolding of particular making episodes can be investigated. This report presents a transcript-centred example of micro-phenomenological interviewing focused on a moment during the making of an installation artwork when a previously unresolved composition came to “feel right”. An edited, numbered exchange documents how interviewer redirections and participant corrections contributed to elaborating an initial summary account into more specific descriptions of visual searching, a changing material-spatial relation, cessation of searching, bodily release, and subsequent explicit recognition. The contribution lies in making inspectable how a retrospective account of lived experience is elicited and progressively elaborated within an installation art context centred on material-spatial relations relevant to both art and design. The single case is used for this demonstrative purpose rather than to establish a general experiential structure or validate micro-phenomenology. The report also situates micro-phenomenological interviewing in relation to complementary qualitative methods. As art and design research engages embodied, tacit, and practice-based forms of knowledge, a methodological challenge concerns how the experiential unfolding of particular making episodes can be investigated. This report presents a transcript-centred example of micro-phenomenological interviewing focused on a moment during the making of an installation artwork when a previously unresolved composition came to “feel right”. An edited, numbered exchange documents how interviewer redirections and participant corrections contributed to elaborating an initial summary account into more specific descriptions of visual searching, a changing material-spatial relation, cessation of searching, bodily release, and subsequent explicit recognition. The contribution lies in making inspectable how a retrospective account of lived experience is elicited and progressively elaborated within an installation art context centred on material-spatial relations relevant to both art and design. The single case is used for this demonstrative purpose rather than to establish a general experiential structure or validate micro-phenomenology. The report also situates micro-phenomenological interviewing in relation to complementary qualitative methods. ~ ~