Research question
- This spatial design research inquiry explores “home” as an intimate assemblage of memory, matter, and imagination. Key to this inquiry is the concept of the nomadic home as both a material and temporal process of place-making which can be reconfigures in relation to multiple sites/locations/spaces. This notion of home is informed by recent thinking of affect theory by Brian Massumi and Eve Sedgwick and will draw on Mark Wigley’s Architecture of Atmosphere begin to understand a connection between the emotional and the physical world.
- Home can mean many different things to many different people through the experiences they have had in a space and how this deepens their connection to the place they call home. How can the essence of a home be captured through material exploration, analysis, and modification to change our perception of the home through a sensory means?
- How can using an autoethnographic approach and the methods of collection through mapping experiences of sound, touch, smell, and feel and exploration into the materials that we associate with these senses help to capture my experience of home and the happenings that occur on a day to day basis?
- Can this be used to create a metaphorical sensory home for someone in times of stress and discomfort? So that they have a place/object/thing that they can use to develop a sense of connection, comfort, and even relaxation through the recreation of memories through bodily sensory experiences.
- How can the physical senses of touch, hear, see and smell be used to remind us of things we have experienced? Be used to evoke memories.
- How can these memories be transferred into a tangible form? A transportable form that can go away from the place where we experienced this memory and be relived?
- Can we use and manipulate bodily senses to recreate memories and experiences?
- Can connections between people and places due to memories be recreated in a different (and utterly opposite space/country vs city) space/location/area/time?
- Can material exploration be used and manipulated to generate a material sensory home that can be created in places that aren’t home?
Georgia Christina Grace 