This spatial design research inquiry explores “home” as an intimate and autoethnographic 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 an autoethnographic lens and applied to material exploration, analysis, and modification to embody the essence of home?
- How can using an autoethnographic approach and the methods of collection through mapping experiences. Sketching, photography, design machine intervention be used to capture my experience of home?
- 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 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 