Tacit and embodied knowledge
Practice Question
How can I improve the spatial quality of the working office environment through the use of qualities and experience of city development
My Field.
The office is a space full of movements, trace and experience. As human and non-human objects dancing together in the limited boundary, space becomes a field of experiences with decay. In this stage, I will refine the process of creating contexts around my practice through my methodologies.
This office contains 280 people in a single floor which is very overpopulated space. In this boundary, there are many contrasting aspects, trace and movements.
The Methodology of My Five Words
EXPERIENCE / MOVEMENT
To explore the experience and movement of my field (Office environment), the idea of being my self as an object in the environment is an effective method. each element and object in my field contains the experience of how they interacted with human or non-human objects.
My start point of the document method is the site survey.
- Furniture survey
- Quality survey
- Time/utilization survey
Through these surveys, I was able to experience the breath of the building and the personal experiences as well as the personal narratives of human and non-human objects.
In the quality survey and time/utilization survey
I was able to track or explore the personal narrative experience and the whole movements of my field. I have become an object of the space in my daily trace I was dancing with all the other human and non-human object.
furthermore, I was able to refine the purpose of the environment.
The building is a total of 6 floors and it was built in 2008 by one of the largest engineering company. Our company is the first tenant of this building and we are using level 2 and 3, the building was designed for the office environment with different aspects of zones such as focus space, meeting space, collaborate space and staff space. As time flows the zones of the space started to become gathered and heavy, therefore space started to lose the theme and zone of the environment.
Personal Movement/Experience
Movement and Quaility of the Space
Time/utilization survey
I have done this survey for whole week and every hour. Through this survey I was able to track the each one of the personal experience. It was very interesting that everyone is having different personal experiences in same working environment.
DECAY/SEEP & TRACE
What is decay in my field?
I have taken another fieldwork to find out what kind of decays are accoured in my field.
Object Decay.
All the pieces of furniture and elements in the space start to decaying after contact with the human. Human has the power, Power to move the non-human objects in a curtine environment but through that move, the object could face the unsuitable surroundings which could issue the decay of the object Also simply human has the power to damage the non-human objects but I believe it is one of the way human and non-human object dancing in a space.
Human Decay.
As human is an organism type of object, we decay as well. We leave our pieces and traces in the private space as well as public space. The fingerprints on the screen and all the papers on the workstation symbolizes the trace and movement of personal narrative. Furthermore, the hairs, skins and dirt from human body represent the decay of human in my field.
In this case, I have used photographic documentation which is the utilisation of photography to document environments the significant and relevant to my field of research.
The main aim of this methodology is to create photojournalism for my research.
TRACE
The trace of my field also has been explored through the documentation methods of Decay and seep
Exploering the traces of 250 people in my field was unexpectedly took a huge part of my understanding of tracking the history of the environment.
Objects which have been moved, used and contacted by human get the trace of the human. this basically could represent the quaily of the space by how human treat or convey the objects around them.
The human hand is the human body part which creates the most very important connections with the environment. We use hand to be comunnicate and connected with somebody or somewhere. The sense of touching is one of the first act we do when we become a part of space.
through the sense of touch, we leave lots of traces around the space.
- Fingerprints
- Objects
- Hairs or dirt
- Waste
AFFECT
to explore the affect in my field (Office environment) I needed to focus on the changes in my field.
How the experience of the space changes the objects or humans in the office. I believe the affect of my field has been explored through my other words with different aspects but the key point of affect in my field is changes of the object or human, change of shared or private experience, and change of the space.
DESIGN PROCESS
In the new concept design layout, The aim for this design is the agile working space. Which is a basically no has there own working desks and all of the desks are touchdown system. I have removed about 100 desks but I have added more meeting and collaborate spaces. As many people goes out to the site or meeting for whole day I was thinking that having all of the empty working desks was waste of space and productive. As this concept has more space to collaborate and better human circulation. The movement and experience of the space should be more developed from previous existing layouts.