First set of possible design intervention areas for music festival experiences

After fully absorbing my survey data, which was inspiring in itself, I've done some sketching and pondering what I learned. I've come up with several areas that might be worth exploring further around festival experiences - areas that seem to be meaningful and important to people about their experiences, and that aren't necessarily formally supported by any current festival offerings. I'm not a fan of flimsy, maudlin positive sentiments, and the intensity with which people shared their feelings about these areas of experience seems to suggest their real importance in many people's lives.

So far the areas I'm looking at designing some kind of possible support systems for are below. They roughly align to the pre-festival, during-festival and post-festival experience areas.

•  the 'after the festival' positive feeling: expressing, harnessing or sharing it, making it useful to you and other people

• connecting *you* to music: your music, your music community, the personal significance and history of your own music tastes, activities and listening

• supporting self-development and self-exploration at festival: looking at who you are, who you are at a music festival, who do you want to be, who do you want become in the future, personal goals, etc.

• the festival community at large and music festival history: sharing experiences, memories, and recording what often goes unrecorded and forgotten

• the novel, serendipitous or unexpected experience: social connections and experiences, or unusual, out-of-the-ordinary vibrant life experiences

• tribalism, nomadism, or visually expressing membership in a larger, geographically-agnostic community

• music festival experiences over a lifetime: families, music festivals and aging audiences