As my research question sits at the moment and as a driving factor for my project always i have chosen to start by introducing my research question followed by my works context and relation to the context and distribution channels matrix.
research question: How can materials that have outlived their useful life be reused and re-purposed to create a modular, lightweight and compact-able spatial system that can become the travelling “home” for a nomadic person?
By using these 3 initial ingredients of raw, processed and standardized I have used these as a constant driver in my project and how it has been developing. Raw being the qualities of the materials that I have been using. Processed being the process of cutting shaping and molding that these materials have gone through to be made into a series of prototypes. And finally standardized, the process that I have been following to change the properties of these materials and how joining these materials can be done without the use of permanent fixings.
I was very interested in working with the words substitute, subtract and reconstitute again in this next step of the design as I was really connecting with the metaphorical properties these words had in relation to my project. How, substituting into someone’s life the prototype I am working on to help them significantly. How this prototype can help someone who is considered to be nomadic and have no fixed home. By reconstituting materials and changing their material properties to make them malleable, lightweight and portable.
I have chosen to work with the contexts of compose and contain in this exercise. Compose meaning to put together, I thought this was a very nice way to help me think about what I am making and how I am making it by focusing on the joins in the materials I am using. Also, to dig down into the very fine details of materials to see what they contain and how I can use these properties to generate my own joining and fixing objects.
When generating these ideas, I was already starting to think about my target audience and distribution channels so I found it particularly fitting to use the words participate and physical to explain the way I would aim to get my target audience involved. By creating a series of physical prototypes that people will have to interact with in order to see the full potential of the project. A light weight modular/movable structure for someone who moves a lot. Creating them a “home in a bottle”
A lot of the feedback that I received from the presentation was around the ides of expanding on my works connection to preexisting works in this sort of area, things like single person tents, cardboard architecture even down to something as simple as material properties. How something can be made and used in the way i am envisaging it to be used?
strategies that i will use to implement this feedback i feel is down to something as simple as looking into these things, like camping and tramping gear and see how people have achieved this idea of a portable and compact-able tent structure before me, and how my research can contribute to what has already come before me and how it can be used to improve the quality and use of this product.
Moving on from this i could start to test ideas from these that i have found interesting and effective for them and see how i could use these combined with my ideas to produce a series of prototypes that explore what a potential “home in a bottle” could look like.
Georgia Christina Grace 