Design approaches, home environments, life world experiential space, intermediary space, ethnography, art and action research, installation as corminatory display
Abstract
Today, designing for home environments call for new design approaches, which are able to more fully embrace the complexity of modern living. The preliminary methodological 'thesis' of Moving Stories is that the interrogation of spaces of experience and reflection, of lifeworlds, require design approaches and forms of representations that are likewise experiential and reflective. In the Moving Stories project ethnographically inspired methods were mixed with artistic ways of working, as an alternative way of organizing and representing the design process. The result includes a video-installation and a series of booklets with stories based upon material gathered from five households in the process of moving from one home to another. The participating researchers represented the three different professional fields of engineering, art and interaction design reflecting different perspectives on both methods and goals. The informants were at various stages in life, and the moves made them reflect upon different aspects of both time and space. Finally, the combinatory installation as a form of representation, is in this case not an attempt to make art, but an answer to the interdisciplinary field as well as to the manifold time-space of relocating - on the one hand an intermediary recess between the past and the future, on the other a space in formal transition.
