An aim is “a purpose of intention; a desired outcome.”
- What is it you value
- Why you’re carrying out this research
- I am carrying out my research because I feel like there is a gap in the area of what a home for a person without a home looks like and how this functions, and how it can function for someone who is willingly without a home and someone who has no choice to be without a home.
- I am very interested in creating a multi-use structure for a nomadic person
- Someone that moves a lot
- Something that can move with them
- Very present with the pandemic at the moment
- What happens to the homeless people in all of this?
- Where do they sleep?
- Shelter?
- Tent?
- Something?
The term research aim usually refers to the main goal or overarching purpose of a research project.
- What are you hoping to get out of it
- Changing your thinking
- Where I would like to be
- To get a better insight into what it is like to live as a nomad person
- why someone might choose to live a nomadic or homeless lifestyle
- What it is like to live as a homeless person throughout the covid-19 pandemic? climate change? or even something as simple as the changing seasons?
- Is there something like this around at the moment? A object/structure that has a need for expansion
- Macpac tents/single person tents/festival tents/portable shelters/for 1 or 2 people?
Why are you carrying out this research, what are you hoping to understand from carrying out this research?
I am carrying out this research as I feel very connected to the idea of being a nomadic person. As I have 2 fixed places I call my home and I am forever travelling between the 2 I find this idea of forever travelling between places to be interesting as this brings about its own struggles of what do you take with you every time you travel and what is left behind and/or forgotten when you leave.
At this stage the aims of your project can be sketched out in a number of ways – they can be quite descriptive, speculative (hypothetical, hunch based) or philosophical (thoughtful).
- Descriptive:
- modular
- structural
- shelter
- enclosure
- Speculative (hypothetical/hunch based):
- materials to be used would be;
- waterproof,
- light weight,
- UV strong
- materials to be used would be;
- Philosophical (thoughtful):
- home for a nomadic person
- post apocalyptic home
- festival tent
- give them a better life
- affordable
When writing out your aims consider how they introduce an idea or concept.
- Idea/concept:
- travelling home
- shelter for a nomadic person
- customiseable shelter
- modular, lightweight and portable
- kit-set?
Your aims should help you connect your ideas to other research/ways of carrying out research. This can be by referring to:
Aspects of your research such as, established traditions, historical or cultural traditions, political influences, material exploration, or to other creative practitioners/practices.
- historical traditions:
- shelters used in war times
- political influences:
- how the homeless keep warm?
- the trend of homelessness how and when it came about?
- material exploration:
- lightweight materials
- weatherproof materials
- UV strong
- waterproof
- wind
- dust
- can be compact/take up less space
- change material properties so it can be changed and flattened when transported
- other practitioners/practices:
- cardboard architecture
- sibling architecture
- festival tents – cardboard tents
Aims tie your proposed research to the hypothesis set out in your question – this might include beliefs, methods of investigation, thoughts (paradigms), as well as to practices.
- material exploration and testing
- model making methods
- Spatial/domestic
Georgia Christina Grace 