RESEARCH AND PROCESS

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 Finding unhomely space to program my room as an office or study room 

Exploring abandoned space or space I have ever used in a different way.

I have ever tried to explore the space that furniture made except for my childhood. All of those space is not normally used by people or used in a very specific way. As the furniture is made to support the human body and their purposed action. So there are spaces that we did not really notice for using as those are not designed to use. These kinds of the guideline of using furniture waste the unused space or shape people cannot notice to use it. 

*This experiment of using abandoned space as an office is running for one hour to two hours *

Preparation 

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Desk 

Clock

Desk light

Laptop

All of those experiments are written as an Ethnography. 

At first, I was trying to find out somewhere I can explore without any past memories. For this experiment, What I want to find out is how working in this space valued in different space and how it impacts my ability to concentration level for work. At this moment, I was wondering how memory with multi-sensory experience are combined and affects my working time.

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Building your experience to make your behaviour-routine 

to program space into different space

*All pictures took by me except for two pics from a  participant

 Figure 1 Experiment table

 How about design furniture as equipment to make your routine? 

Separate your behavior to separate your life. It is about making your work, rest, and entertaining time-zone. 

This experiment has been designed from below writings,

I live in a student dorm en suite room. In the room, there are minimal items necessary for living, such as a desk, wardrobe, bookshelf, bed, and toilet. I put my laptop on my desk, and I often watched YouTube videos sitting at my desk. Also, I have three meals a day at my desk and also ate snacks several times. I mostly do three activities such as watching videos, having a meal, and studying in the area of my desk. Whenever I was having a meal, I watched the video as well. And every time I turn on my laptop, I unconsciously find food. the visual stimulus and the tactile stimulus from the actions take place at the desk area. Suppose people do something that requires concentration above all else, in such a space, they will continue to be bothered and tempted by extraneous stimuli performed from the experience. Whenever I sit in front of my desk and try to study, want some food, and watching videos at the same time. In contrast, When I have a meal at that desk or watch YouTube even after my today's work is done, I keep thinking of my unsolved work. This seems to be the result of the combination of stress, taste, and visual stimulation. This experience may seem too natural. But that is the reason why I concern this issue. This is because a situation is coming where we must separate the life that is natural for us.

If adopting this situation in the home office, it will be difficult to get rid of such anxiety from stimuli of the accumulated experience. If I use the desk as a home office desk, it will be more difficult to get out of the stress. As whenever I try to take a rest, I keep thinking about left work. As the situation in which the home is being used as an office is functionally accessible as an office at any time. The psychological burden that this situation puts on the individual comes as stress. Staying in such one space functioned as several roles bring mental stress.

This whole repeated experience is from how far and many I access to another space or object. So that I think this situational problem, working from only at home from Pandemic reduces own psychological space. Then, this is connected to the burnout problem. I suggest perceptual separation from rest space and working space from one place. This might resolve from the making own experiences as spatial by setting specific behavior in the specific spot has drawn by a green tape. The drawing is from the outline of a specific object, and it roles as a trigger to make own intangible boundaries to control oneself. 

I pay attention to how the individual creates such an Imaginary space/boundary through the interaction between objects and themselves. And design intervention related to this idea to deal with mental stress and living new normal in a home.

Figure2 Table and zones

Figure3 Table and direction

Figure 4 Table with peri-personal space

Terminology1 Peri-personal space, it means the space that your arm will not reach.

This distance need for separating your working life, entertaining life, and rest life (having a meal without work stress) from the physical distance. It shapes your movement. As you move to different spot, you will not allow doing another thing during you are doing sth. This is for separating the blurred life and interrupt memories. 

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25th of Febrary tutorial w. Mike.

-Bathroom pics sensational

-Rule-breaking, anxiety is like an unwashed plate in the wardrobe (Mary Douglas)

(Culturally effects on the psychological reaction on the situation, how we deal with objects.)

- HSBC office reduce to 40%

-  What if I work outside of the office, it would be less valued ? or more valued ? or the same? 

- New context of the relationship between people, place, and object/thing 

What I can do the experiment within the context.

My portable office 

                                                         A bag from Sainsbury

A Tripod

A portable table

A laptop

A clock

1st of March _Friday 2:00 pm 

First time working outside

My work schedule is up to when sunlight is on. 

I started to document work  around 2:00pm

My first direction where I was facing is [  <---   ], but sunlight bothered me so I started to move a bit to avoid sunlight.

A little bit moved.

The screen looked black as sunlight, but my face was burned.  So that I had to keep this posture.

+While working from green, I got attacked by loud lock music. A group of students near me turned music on and down constantly. 

-Weather 

-people are doing different thing in the green

- Feeling good

- I wrote some pieces of an essay here - concentration good.

The same day, 4:00pm 

There is an owner of this bystreet, he checked what I was doing and my personal properties.

 After checking in, I started to document work on my project. 

 When I moved, he appeared again. And checked my bag and the office again.

I tried to finish the writing about my project and organized my thoughts.

The owner of this space played out with a squirrel's body during I working from his space, bystreet.

                                      That is the hardest part to keep work in this unused space from people. 

If we do not use, animals are the owner. And I was the obstructor.

I feel like space does not important matter but what is around you, 

and how you are protected by them is important part of working from anywhere.

3th of March_ Sunday  2:30 pm

Second time working outside

As this day was Sunday, people are not many near Canary Wharf and also at Deptford DLR Station. 

It was raining.

As raining, I wait to go outside work until 2:30pm from the morning of the day, It kept raining.

So that I decided to go out to experience working anywhere on a rainy day. 

I had a conversation with a passenger who is asking me 

'Are you working in here?'

We were having 3mins conversation about working from home and my nationality.......why?

After I work here for almost 20mins, I moved to Canary Wharf.

I was trying to do productive work there,

but I was too embarrassed to continue searching this space to work. TBH.

The street was wet. 

At first, I was finding any space that I can work near HSBC such as interspace or unused space. 

However, there are not any of that kind of space that I can explore.

So I decided to work right in front of HSBC as like performance.

I was tried to set my portable office right next to the HSBC Building as facing their building. 

At this moment, before I have set mine there, a guard stopped me to do it. 

There were three guards inside of the glass building, and also three guards outside of the building.

some of them are searching and the left are standing some spot.

All of them were wearing a yellow vest and have wireless set / radio. 

They keep sharing the whole situation around the building to guard.

The spot I was tried to work was the walking path for the guards. 


We had a short conversation
 About the reason, I can not do work there.
It is because the building is a huge property and it is private property. 
And they said that protect building and workers are what they are doing, and HSBC wants to protect their building strictly. Also, he said you might stop by guard wherever near company. All of the companies have guards in Canary Wharf. 

The space they did not stop me was under this bus stop.

I tried to write a piece of thinking about my project, guards kept watching me.

Honestly, it was embarrassing. And sitting in the street makes me feel very weird. 

I felt I am the unwashed plate in the wrong place.

7th of March _ Thursday 2:30pm

Third time working outside

I found an unused interspace between buildings near my home.

I went there and tried to write about my project and organized work I have done.

I worked here for almost 1hours.

At first, It was hard to sit at this bystreet. 

I feel like this is the pathway a rat or mice will use. 

When I sit at there, it was okay.

After time passing, it was too cold. 

Especially I felt cold at my foot and my legs as the ground were cold.

And kept wind was out from the ground.

When I arrived home,  I checked video that I took.

I find out a man goes back to his house as I sit at the bystreet and use the space. 

- I felt this might be aggressive action for people who live there. 

Like homeless people occupied the street with their property. 

Whenever I walk by them, I feel I have to be careful to do not to invade their home.

The man is the dweller near the space, he could not use the space because I occupied the space.

And I think he might do not wanna disturb me,

 I guess it is the feeling ' I do not want to invade your space, and do not want to disturb you' 

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 Ideas

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 Radical design

Portability 

Protect 

Private 

Comfortableness

Private Space that people never disrupt 

Emotional design - office - psychological issue 

Control and Psychological effect. 

Hoodie / Umbrella / Raincoat / Ikea - How those items could lead the future working life post-pandemic.

100 words essays

1. Umbrella 

2. Raincoat - written by Mattew Belmonte

2. Hoodie

Heunjun Yoo - Hoodie is from the culture ...

 Personal space - hoodie, earphone, headphone etc some of the objects change the world we live in psychologically. We perceive the world and space we are indifferently for temporally.  

3. Ikea

Atmosphere made 

Office canopy boom - private space - comfortableness

Reference : https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iOoaKyD9eIb8/v8/-1x-1.jpg

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