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a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.
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inspiration and direction
preliminary proposal and method
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user and their surroundings
mismatch and connection
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For young people, it is important to find this temporary space for independence and opportunities outside their zone. This nonlinear housing pathway is needed for an undetermined transitional period. Many young people want to have a more secure and stable pathway. This project attempts to discuss this juxtaposition of temporariness and transition to permanence and stability. The nomadic lifestyle of young people inhabits a very consumerist view on objects. These temporary living situations often do not match the objects used inside of it. Things such as furniture that inhabit the purgatorial home of young people are meant to make the place their own. These heavy objects often oppose the mobile lifestyle of a young adult and creates a wasteful cycle when people move on to the next home.
For many young people, finding a home is one of the most important transition periods toward independence and enables their integration to the social economic status of adults. Due to the lack of experience and precariousness of their status, young people are prone to the risk of social insecurity and poverty. These involve homelessness, institutional care, crime and substance abuse.
Most of my colleagues have bought their furniture from cheap stores such as Ikea and these objects are not mobile enough and end up being thrown away. However, the building of these furniture allows this sense of skill building, responsibility and attachment to these products through a do-it-yourself package.
What I want is to design for this movement and transition. One of the most important milestones of a young person is graduating and transition to adulthood. I think that one of the most overlooked moments of this occasion is moving out and going to look for opportunities to progress their future. No one really thinks about moving out to a new chapter in their life.
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IN THE START OF THE PROJECT, I DECIDED TO USE THE METHOD RESEARCH-FOR-CREATION. I GOT A BASE UNDERSTANDING OF YOUNG ADULTS AND THE MISMATCHES OF THEIR HOUSING OPTIONS. THIS GOT ME TO WHERE MY PROTOTYPE WAS WITH THE LUGGAGE BAG. I THINK THAT HAVING A DISCUSSION WITH MY PEERS WILL ELEVATE THIS PROJECT MORE AND PUSH MY DESIGN THAT WOULD BEST FIT THE SPECIFIC DEMOGRAPHIC. I WANT TO PURSUE THE IDEA OF MOVING OUT AND ASK WHAT THEY WOULD CHANGE LOOKING BACK. THESE WOULD BE CONCEPTS OF REDUCING WASTE, BUYING LESS IMMOBILE OBJECTS AND SO ON.
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Objects all have meaning or multiple meanings inside of them. It is defined by an objects context and what it is used for. Objects might have both juxtaposing elements around it. In the found objects movement, the meaning of objects could be questioned and played with. By changing the context, setting, and adding or subtracting things, an object could transform into something else metaphorically or physically.
“A found object is a natural or man-made object, or fragment of an object that is found (or sometimes bought) by an artist and kept because of some intrinsic interest the artist sees in it.”
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In an example of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain and the “ready-made” objects of art, the connotation of any regular object can be altered. Through irony, he creates this critique of what art really is and started this anti-art/dada movement.
An object such as a duffle bag has created the context of moving and nomadic life. This object is used in the in between of moving from place to place. This temporal use renders this object useless at any time before and after this movement. I want to change the meaning of the object and dictate this object as a permanent and ongoing trusted pal you take with you and use everyday. In what this project is trying to do, I think that reappropriating an object of temporariness and transition to permanence is a perfect match.
Now to us young adults, we often seem to find expressing ourselves through individuality and originality. In our expression through our clothes and hobbies, we often find ourselves in this juxtaposition of consumerism and anti-capitalist moral. Thrifting has had many meanings throughout my lifetime. When I was very young, I usually thought that thrifting was for people who do not have enough money. In that sense, it was these objects and things that people had no use for and this led to the idea that these had no value whatsoever. This in my mind was for people that needed the help and I thought about it as kind of a social welfare program. When I got older, thrifting became more of a treasure hunt. The term one mans trash is another one’s treasure comes to mind. It became more about the game of finding things of relative and subjective value. It became more of an extreme retail sale than finding things I wanted. It then transformed into a more complex hobby of finding things I didn’t expect to see or thought I wouldn’t have needed. These objects and items that other people thought were valueless would be something me or my friends would think as cool.
From what many people are doing, most of these alternative housing situations are meant to be a lifestyle choice. These alternative housing solutions such as tiny homes, repurposing of vans, RVs, shipping creates often take months of effort, money and time. The people that do this prefer this type of lifestyle and they allow the hardships of owning and maintaining these houses as a fun challenge/ experiences that are different from other people (basically hipsters). These alternative housing solutions often involve sacrificing things such as comfort of space, alternative solutions for bathrooms and laundry situations and other aspects that most people would not prefer to be in. In many of these solutions as well, the amount of money and time for a small sense of comfortability is not feasible for someone such as a student that will eventually leave for another place. In entering and living in an unused space such as an abandoned building. How do you justify designing a comfortable space where you sleep, eat and study with the large amount of effort and capital you need to renovate a space that you will live in for less than a couple months of the year. Would it be just more optional to take a year off, work part time during the semester. Financial solutions outside of housing such as OSAP generally helps students afford these options as well.
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