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Throughout the first six weeks of design research, I investigated what methodologies can be developed in an interior design practice that notions an ethical move away from the anthropocentric frame. These investigations focused on responsive explorations to existing occurrences. Occurrences speak to the unfolding interactions between living and non living entities that are perpetually occurring within our surroundings. I produced a process of situational notation, using observation as a tool for initiating a deep spatial awareness and attentiveness within my domestic realm. These notations frame existing occurrences through drawing and film, intensifying these external forces and entities through post production techniques of slow motion and time lapse. This process  

informed performative gestures as interventions within these occurrences. The series of interventions informed a conceptual framework around interiorizing, which enabled me to develop the situational notations further through expanded drawing techniques, using my body and sourced materials as medium. Through this process of situational notation, I engaged in a dialogue between myself and these existing occurrences, enabling a methodology that is ecologically curious and sensitive.  

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“Paying attention is to ask in what way it is possible to set up fields or domains of resonance with others?"(animals, social processes, visualisation systems, soap, water, hands)

 

Deleuze, Guattari 

“Notation was then the documentation or registration of  noticing…the observation becomes the material that is then re - thought and re - observed in endless cycles of observing.”

 

Helen Grogan 2015

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