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Home office requires you to be more responsible. Why we cannot work at home? It is about mindset. According to A survey conducted by bain and company, productivity decrease during Covid-19 because of a lack of work mindset and dedicated workspace.  - Image source from the youtube channel of Bloomberg Quicktake - In the case of mindset and workspace problem when working remotely, is related to the home identity. It is designed for residence. And also, the home is a private space that nobody can touch. We have no rule. We are responsible for managing our life by our will and behavior. I am used to following the manner or rules of society. For example, 1. Do not wear high heels when I go to the library. 2. Do not make noise when I take a class at university. (social manner) 3. Do not wear pajamas when I go out (cultural learning) 4. Do park your car inside the rectangle drawing on the asphalt at parking lots (rule/ legal rule) . . . . . . All about respecting others and respecting all of us. For this, you have to be responsible for your behavior. But at home, It is only me and my family. Being controlling from learning and practicing the rule of society is easy for me. However, creating my own rules and responsibly acting by my will is not a familiar thing. And this affects my mentality during living in this lockdown period. Keeping my normal life in this period is a huge challenge for me. From this point, I realize that working from home is not only just working from home or working at my dining table, but it is creating new life and my identity by rethinking my life and trying to be responsible. Our life is followed by social rules outside of the home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why I can't study in my room?Do you agree with working from home post-pandemic? -Room plan_main image- contents below. -Analysis based on a relationship between furniture, space and dweller. Now we faced the Pandemic, Covid-19, in sudden. People are looking forward Untact age. People are facing the situation of working from their own home and requiring them to stay at home for a long time. We are facing the need for changing the working system and rethinking of place and time from this situation. We are experiencing the positive effects and negative effects of these working from home experiences. This will be affected by the post-pandemic age to have a new normal. For the new normal life, we need a new design for supporting our life. And this is because we cannot expect to be back to normal life exactly the same way we have been lived. The traditional working place within the working pattern and working time will be flexible. According to a survey of CBS, 70 percentages of people among working from home workers are having mental stress and burnout symptom. However, a survey in May 2020 in the US showed that 20.3 percentages workers are answering they do not want to go back to the office post-pandemic, 55.5 percentages of workers want to flexible working pattern with hybrid office systems. Which are going to offices for 2 or 3 days in a week, and 2 or 3 days is allowed for working from anywhere.  As a result of this survey, there is a demand for working from home, and also demand office for work. Similarly, people are answering that WFH is efficient completely is occupied 33.4 percentages and 30.7 percentages of people are answering they cannot do their job at home. The survey result is below.  I am the one who cannot study at home, similarly working from home is hard for me as well. I found these reasons are coming from a diverse way. For personal reasons, my habits, and need for time or action for the mindset to work affects me. For environmental reason, the interior and furnishings of my room, architectural elements of my residential space.
This situation makes the various layers of roles of home. However, we are living in the same place without physical change and mind change. And the impacts of blurred work-home boundaries bring some negative effects on mental stress such as fatigue, and anxiety. I found that there is difficulty on 'on and off time for working and rest. Whenever I was working I feel too comfortable, in contrast, I feel anxiety when I take a rest. This is related to the psychological issue of mentality and this is from how space designated with furniture. We shape our space with furniture, afterwards the furniture structure space and our behaviour. Spatial experience is a vital part of considering dwellers live in a building. I think furniture has a great impact on space and residents' spatial experience. "We shape our building, and afterwards, our building shapes us." Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill I think his words can be adapted to residential space. We shape our space with furniture, afterwards the furniture structure space our behaviour. For example, I analyse my room as a residential space and how it shapes my behaviour in a certain way.  Most of the activity is placed at a desk. The bed is located right behind of Desk The room designated to have the direction of body movement. 2 windows are Front side from the door 1window is the right side from the door This room space is designated by the deployment of furniture such as bed, desk and closet. This placement makes this small space to be a narrower space like a corridor. And this restricts the dweller's movement in a straight direction of the pathway. This pathway is originally an empty space, however, it is physically made by how each piece of furniture is set in place and how it occupies the space(Arnheim, 1977). When the dweller enters the room, she can perceive this room with those two pathways which are the front and the right. The furniture on the front side of the door functions to connect the dweller's body while supporting one to study, eat, and draw on the desk or to lie down and sleep on the bed. In contrast, the furniture, on the right side of the door, is designed for storing stuff- a static property. Therefore these environmental factors and deployment of furnishings support dweller’s movement and also restrict their movement in a certain way. I was led to have more time in the front side space from the door. However, this spatial structure created mental health problems during studying from home in this pandemic. The desk and bed have symbolic meaning to my object spatial practices, which is study and rest. I noticed that the desk was a place to study. However, I also found that I did many different activities there. The desk already is a place that is constantly influenced by two contrasting activities. Additionally, the bed has a completely symbolic meaning of getting from my spatial experience such as sleeping, watching videos, and texting. As the bed is located right behind the desk only a footstep away, it attracts the dweller to take a rest from other activities. From one's bodily experience, one has already perceived the bed as a meaning of rest. This interior design disturbs you to work and take a rest as well. Also, a narrow interspace is an important matter. The perceptual psychologist, Rudolph Arnheim said about ‘interspace’- the relationship between two buildings - in his book called, The Dynamics of Architectural Form (1977). Interspace is the distance between the buildings, it also influences the degree of their mutual dependence or independence. If interspace were entirely eliminated, the two buildings would tend to coalesce into one, with the small one looking like a mere appendage of the large one. At the other extreme, a great distance would extinguish most relations between the buildings. p18 This analysis of interspace, a relationship between two buildings, could be implemented into the placement analysis of furniture in a room. In this sense, The size of the interspace between bed and desk is small, and even though it is connected by the chair. This extreme, close space made the dweller feel that those objects connect. In this situation, working and rest space is perceived as one object. I think this environmental effect has a vital part in shaping a safe and healthy life in the future. So that the furniture has a more vital part of our life. And this requires an emerging role in architecture and furnishing design. *Reference Bloom, N. (2020). How working from home works out | SIEPR. [online] siepr.stanford.edu. Available at: https://siepr.stanford.edu/research/publications/how-working-home-works-out. Arnheim, R. (2009). The dynamics of the architectural form: based on the 1975 Mary Duke Biddle lectures at the Cooper Union. Berkeley, California; Los Angeles, California; London England: University Of California Press In this research and ana, I have learned how to design guide people in a space . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This project is all about respecting the time of life and work. -How we can protect our work-life and rest life while working from home? It is about refusing work and respecting the working time. Both are important for our healthy life.  Program your space mentally differently. Regarding Bruce Nauman, Ulrich Eller once pointed out that when a book has opened a centre is created into which the gaze sinks; focusing produces a place of shelter that cannot offer a flat surface. The open book itself becomes a space and a kindly roof, which the reader moves into and beneath; opening the cover of a book can be associated with entering through a door that then metaphorically protects the reader. (Christoph Metzger, Walter and First Edition Translations Ltd, 2018, p137) I would like to make these mental spaces with physical space or a thing to programming the space as mentally protected. All of this is for respecting the working life and people’s life. Making your mental space for events or specific times is related to making rituals. In my research, furniture is on the top of the relationship between space, furniture, and dweller. Then how I can make a home ritual with furniture? I think furniture can function more powerfully as directly engaged with the human body and their mobility. * Reference Metzger, C. and Walter, R., 2018. Neuroarchitecture. Berlin: Jovis, p.137. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Making your routine be your rituals and mindset for managing your work and rest life
This research is Looking into the relationship between Space and Human How do we normally perceive place? We have learned and experienced distinguish space and place. If there is empty space without any signs, we think of the space as just space. However, If there are any signs in empty space, we will perceive those spaces as places. This is a very clear thing that how we perceive space, but it is hard to notice this clear phenomenon. Let's see examples,  Figure 1 Asphalt (space)  Figure 2 Lines and cars on asphalt = car parking lots (place) There are many signs spaces to perceive as places. People reproduce space to be a place by how they use those spaces. Maybe all of the things could be the sign as we learn how to read and understand things from our experience and culture as well.
From this observation, I did a mini-experiment is for 'Programming myself to rethink space as a place.  
 This mini-experiment is searching how space could be a place and the psychological effects on me from the canopy. Pictures below are how I use this canopy.    I have noticed that how I perceived space as a place. This is all from my past experience that if there is sth, this space of for that. Guessing the purpose of space from the object is the process that I perceive space as a place. From this process of perception, cultural effects roled on my thinking process to understand space. Space is identified and defined by things/objects in my perception. Object, furniture, space and human-made a place. This is the relationship between them ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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