Week Nine: Methodology Checklist and Abstract

Checklist for Part A of your Research Design:

Working Title

Connections to home… What home means to someone… through the intimate sensory experiences of smell, touch, sight, hear and feel.

Draft Abstract (snapshot/nutshell of your entire research project)

TO BE ADDED

Research Aims

• Using human centred design and nomad-ology, the study of nomadic persons (maybe more sub-nomadic not fully nomadic)
• Designed product/prototype as a potential outcome to/ Designed intimate experiential model. Mirror my experiences of what it is like to be at home for me
  • Isolate the comforts of living at home
  • Translate these into a portable and transportable object that can be taken from place to place as the person moves around/ allowing the comfort of home to be taken and not lost or forgotten
• Encourage people who are sub-nomadic that they belong wherever they decide to live, whether it be at home or away so they can feel more comfort, connection and …
• Young adulthood is a challenging time for anyone, with moving out of home and either entering the workforce full time or taking up tertiary study this is a time of complete instability for young adults.

• We as young adults are forced to make so many decisions about our future without being fully aware of the consequences these could have, not getting the job, getting the job then losing the job, not succeeding in the study, changing interests and changing study, and so on. But one thing that should always be stable to help us wherever we may go, and encourage the decisions that we make, is the comfort and stability of home.
• 42% of people worldwide are between the ages of 15-24, this age of young adulthood/youth.
• Of this 42%, on average 39.13% of these people worldwide are in the workforce.
• In a graph published by “ourworlddata” statistics show that in New Zealand in 2020 people aged 15 plus, 100,000 people will only have a primary education, 2.62 million will have a secondary education, and 1.03 million will have a post-secondary education

 

Checklist for Part B of your Research Design:

Research Question

How connections between people and places and objects of their past can be mapped through the bodily sensory experiences of touch, hear, see and smell and how these experiences can be recreated in a physical spatial sense and be used and reexperienced through a sensory means

• Sub-questions

Up to 5 Research Methods

• Collecting/gathering– this is the process when I collect and gather a lot of data and information that I find and interesting and I am very drawn to for some reason.
• Mapping/written and modelled- collecting and gathering information and arranging it into different mind maps to show how these ideas connect together, as well as creating 3D maps to show these ideas translated into a physical example of this idea.
• Filtering– this is the process of cutting out what information that isn’t very useful and finding connections across different resources and information to build the basis of my project.
• Ideation– generating ideas from the resources that I have gathered
• Test/enhance– going through the ideas that I have come up with and comparing these back to the main goals of the project and the resources that I have been using.
• Site mapping- through the lens of the human body I have chose to use this as the site for my project. Due to my background being in spatial design I find it increasingly easier to design for something or someone when I have a site-specific approach. In this case instead of having a physical location site my site is a human body. More importantly, a young adult and their forever changing way of life.

Paradigms/statement

• A paradigm is a world view underlying the theories and methodology of a scientific subject.
• From my research I have thought and though some more about my world views and how they are driving my research the main world views that I have found are listed as follows.
  • Spatial design background– this drives that way that I work to be in a very practical and usable way, taking a site and designing for a specific thing/location/person.
  • White/western upbringing– taking most of the things I use on a day to day basis for granted and always expecting things to be on hand when I need them (easily accessible) this makes it so I don’t fully understand what other people go through.
  • Nomadic person/nomadic living– combined with my western upbringing and my understanding of what it means to live as a nomadic person, challenge what this word means in the traditional sense. Sub-nomadic as another and better way to thing about who my research is targeting.

Bibliography (formatted in Chicago Turabian https://aut.ac.nz.libguides.com/turabian)