Synthesis houses.

For today's DE session we were asked to synthesise all the information relating to people in space collected in the previous tasks; to provide an overview of our findings.

Re-visiting it all and jotting down key points helped to remind me of all I had discovered. Then I made a cake. I have come to realise that I like to immerse myself in information and then to stop. Going away and doing something else allows my thoughts to settle which, in turn, helps the next part of the process.

The explorations were all based around people and place. Within these headings, sub-threads quickly emerged: open-plan space // private space, relationships with space // relationships between people within space. It was these sub-threads that I wanted to represent.



I made two 'houses' to represent open-plan space and private, enclosed space. Inside each is a set of people explaining how they relate to that space. Those belonging to the open house are holding hands because it is a sociable place to be. Those belonging to the private house are holding hands (because they will still talk to each other at some point) but their connections are perforated because, ultimately, they are kept separate.

In the end, I wasn't happy with the result. In an ideal world I would have liked to go back and complete further small studies in order to add to the richness of what I portrayed. Our class discussion did, however, remind me that there is sometimes a need to keep the information very basic. Such communications can be used to provide a quick overview of themes or to prompt discussion. I created work to be used in that very way throughout my undergraduate honours project - conducting research, representing, discussing that representation, representing new findings, etc.

Our next task is to finalise this output and to compose an auto/ethnographic report on the synthesis process.