Your Name:
Georgia Beasley
Title of your project:
Connections to Home through intimate sensory experiences
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 can these experiences can be recreated in a physical spatial sense And be used and re-experienced through a recreated sensory means
- Sub-questions:
- How can the bodily senses of touch, hear, see and smell be used to remind us of past experiences and memories of things we have experienced?
- can these memories be transferred into a tangible form that can be taken away from the place where we experienced this memory and be relived?
- Can bodily senses be used and recreated to remember moments and memories from our past?
- Can connections between people and places due to memories be recreated in a different (and completely opposite space / country to city?) space/location/area/time?
Keywords:
- Home
- Sensory
- Memories
- Skin/Body
Introduction draft:
- Add “fluffy” start to make the reading more engaging and interesting
- remove a lot of the repetition
- acknowledge research shift,
- Add 3 main ideas that i am going to discuss within the essay to the bottom of the introduction
Through the exploration of looking into what home means through the physical spatial sense and how this is a constructed shelter structure that can be occupied and taken from place to place by a nomadic person has allowed my thinking to expand, what is it that makes this structure home? And why am I interested in this idea of creating a home for someone who chooses to live between houses? My research began to shift, and I started to become increasingly more interested in how home can be experienced through the senses of touch, see, smell, hear, and taste. How, through these intimate delicate and unique moments can mean so much more to us and live on within us more than a physical building would.
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- Still to be put through grammarly-pro
- is there too much explaining of my experiences/locating at the beginning?
When it comes to thinking about home and all the structure and support that we get from it. It becomes confusing to define exactly where this boundary between physical home and the feeling of home is. As I would call myself an in-between young adult I find it very difficult to determine exactly where home stems from and where it ends, if it does end? Forever travelling between my childhood home, and the ever changing and fast paced Auckland city. Trying to find my own way in this big crazy world, by using my past experiences and memories as comforts that help me to nurture the decisions that I make without having a consistent physical house that I can return to all year round.
…form a connection that links to Wigley’s idea of architecture and atmosphere…
As Mark Wigley states “atmosphere seems to start precisely where the construction stops” (ADD CITATION REFERENCE). Therefore, he argues that it is not the architecture of a four walled building with a roof that decides where home is. But rather, it is the constructed atmosphere that comes about due to the rituals that occur in the built space. Rituals that come about from the history, upbringings, and differing world views of the domicile that dwells in this space. Creating this idea that no matter where you end up, no matter what building you are living in at a certain time or place you carry the your values of home within you that you then apply to the build space around you. However, Juhani Pallasmaa, a phenomenologist that explores the phenomenology of home, states that “it is the capacity of the dwelling to provide domicile in the world that matters to the individual dweller.” (ADD CITATION REFERENCE)This further challenges this idea that architecture is in fact a large decider on how the space is inhabited and lived in. whether it is the set up of the space from kitchen to living room, or the sheer size of the rooms themselves. These architectural decisions inevitably create changes to the living and the rituals that occur in the space to a certain extent, but not completely. The restrictions put in place by the physical built environment means the inhabitant must adapt the way they live within the space.
summarise my research inrelation to these 2 texts.. how material composition and the intimate sensory experiences that we bring to a space
however these walls do not lay out the rules of how to live, rather they change and morph the tacit ways the dweller has been taught to live by inhabiting the space. (scrap)
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(to be copied over from EndNote)
Georgia Christina Grace 