Your draft research question/inquiry
Research Question:
- How can methods of investigation be used alongside exploration into visual and physical prototypes be used to establish a sense of home and comfort to improve connection for a nomadic person, in their already ‘free’ lifestyle?
a small set of keywords.
- Nomadic living
- Portable
- Lightweight
- “Home”
- Construction/system/kitset
- “pop-up”
A draft discussion of your Aims for this research.
- An aim is “a purpose of intention; a desired outcome.”
My desired outcome would be being able to design a portable system that can be taken to many different locations and assembled, where it can become the home for a nomadic person. Becoming a travelling home for someone who is not currently in their home, away from home.
- The term research aim usually refers to the main goal or overarching purpose of a research project.
Creating a series of elements that can be stored in a small container/bag and transported from place to place and assembled on site with next to no
- Why are you carrying out this research, what are you hoping to understand from 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 not in their home looks like and how this functions, and how it can function for someone who is travelling around and can easily be taken with them without taking up too much room in their luggage.
- 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).
- When writing out your aims consider how they introduce an idea or concept.
- 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.
A large driver behind my research is looking into how different materials react to different situations, like weather, seasons, and locations. Also, how different materials can be manipulated over and over by being reassembled and disassembled at a number of different locations.
Also another driver behind the project would be the political influences and challenging what it is like to live as a nomadic person, how this can be highlighted instead of hindered and make people look down on them as they are in a way “without a home”.
- 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.
A maximum of 3 research methods of inquiry* (tools for research) with images.
- Explain these images in the methods they relate to
- Brainstorm/mindmap- compile all of the ideas that I have swirling around in my head and put them into a written format. Group like ideas and help me to narrow down a storyline/a strong link between my ideas.
- Photography- taking a walk around what is my current home environment and taking photos of details that I am really drawn to and connect strongly with, what give me the feeling that I am at home, I am safe and comfortable. A place where I am the most me.
- Sketching- creating a series of sketches on top of and without the images that I have taken around my current home environment. Use these pen lines and ink to highlight and point out the areas that I am very drawn to and that show both the connection that can be formed from very abstract and different elements.
- 3D modelling/prototyping- from these drawings, diving into these striking lines and dividing up the hierarchy of importance to a range of things… from my connection, comfort and love for the place I currently call home.
- Talking to people sharing ideas
- Getting people to test and interact with what I have made
- Methodology?
- Human cantered
- Co-design
- nomadology
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