Katrin Sigurdardottir

The Green Grass of Home (1997)- 200 word summary Exhibition in 2006 in the mildred lane kemper art museum Recreation of nature reserve nears artists home Models and prototypes were most commonly used by architects and designers in the beginning of their time to test new ideas or designs as an aspect of experimentation, howeverContinue reading “Katrin Sigurdardottir”

Practice-led Research

Practice-led research (methodology) is a form of academic research which incorporates an element of (physical making) practice (generative making processes) in the methodology or research output. Creating and written reflection on what it is I have made, relating these ideas that have been underpinning my work with other artists and designers in the field IContinue reading “Practice-led Research”

Autoethnographic

Autoethnography is a form of qualitative (refers to the measurement of the characteristics of something, rather than mathematical measurements based on the size of something) research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal (not necessarily true or reliable as it is from someone’s recount of events or experiences) and personal experienceContinue reading “Autoethnographic”

Research Question rev.2

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 recentContinue reading “Research Question rev.2”

Research Abstract rev.2

I intend on creating a prototype of home through the use of photography, material collection, mapping, sketching, reassembling and design machine intervention (cnc routing, 3D printing, lasercutting). Using an autoethnographic lens of how i experience my home(s) in both the city and the country as a platform to generate a portable prototype of the philosophicalContinue reading “Research Abstract rev.2”

Brown Scrapbook- Description

Started with brown book – “you are one of a kind” Pairing Titling different common themes in the different areas Taking the base of a scrapbook as the platform to present, conserve and relive these stationery points of home. Bounded by the 4 sides of the square the images are laid out within the constraintsContinue reading “Brown Scrapbook- Description”

Sketches of relocating home structure

To begin my thinking into how i could create a 3 dimensional structure that optimizes what home is like for me through the relocation process i started with simple sketches. These sketches are of things that i have found to be very dominant and reoccurring throughout the images, places, and even the day to dayContinue reading “Sketches of relocating home structure”

Relocating Home Summary (Stage 1)

By exploring the space that i call home in both the countryside and the city of Auckland i was able to create a visual representation of what these spaces mean to me. Through photographing these two spaces at different times and through different angles, views and weather I was able to generate an atmospheric representationContinue reading “Relocating Home Summary (Stage 1)”

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