A change of office scenery, anyone?

from Idealog

Dreaming of working at the beach? Imagine working under a sunny sky – the next best thing created by researchers at the Fraunhofe Institute in Germany.

They've developed an innovative luminous ceiling, using a combination of LEDs to imitate the open sky and create the effect of clouds drifting by.

The ceiling consists of tiles 50cm square, each containing an LED board, which in turn is made up of 288 LEDs. A diffuser film is attached 30cm beneath the LEDs to create homogenous lighting. A combination of red, blue, green and white LEDs made it possible to generate the 16 million colours needed to create a realistic virtual sky.

research question v?

Research Title
Practice based investigation into children's experience of an interactive socially connected play environment within a pediatric healthcare context.

Aim(s)
This project will explore the affect of cooperatively altering a (healthcare) environment through the use of interactive situated technologies. Can the ability of children and their families to interact with healthcare environments in a playful and connected manner contribute to affecting anxiety and the quality of their healthcare experience?
This research will explore how people relate to each other and their spaces within a children's healthcare context.
Question: Can a responsive play environment,imbedded with situated technologies, that is (cooperatively) altered affect children’s experiences of healthcare environments?

considering heterotopia..

Heterotopia is a concept in human geography elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe places and spaces that function in non-hegemonic conditions. These are spaces of otherness, which are neither here nor there, that are simultaneously physical and mental, such as the space of a phone call or the moment when you see yourself in the mirror.

fromWikipedia

supervisory meeting #1

With Max and Me,
general pre xmas ramble as both pretty shattered however we covered some useful things.even just talking about the project is useful.
ideas tobe investigated further for Easter next year include epistomology and the 'meta question' what is the research question exactly?

altering environments ( for....?)
sociability
connectivness/connectability
public/private sharing/
ecologies
content for environments provided by participants ( "ingredients stored on phone?MS ) framework or scaffolding put in place by designer (AN)
environments both 'exterior' (physical real world) and interior ( ie emotional/spiritual ..) able to be accessed in healthcare context.

so thinking through those areas that I raised a month or two ago..

Research Title
Aim(s)
Question....

Research Title
Practice based investigation into children's experience of an interactive socially connected play environment within a pediatric healthcare context.
Aim(s)
This project will explore the relationship between children's experience of their healthcare environment and the affects of being enabled to cooperatively alter it through the use of interactive situated technologies.
This research will explore how people relate to each other and their spaces within a children's healthcare context.
Question: Can a responsive play environment,imbedded with situated technologies, that is (cooperatively) altered affect children’s experiences of healthcare environments?
previously..here

RESEARCH TITLE;

A practice based investigation into co-operative development of play environments and children's experience of illness and healthcare.
AIM:
This project will explore the possibilities that play environments created with children affect their experience of illness and healthcare and contribute to alleviating anxiety.
QUESTION:
In the context of children’s healthcare, can a responsive play environment, developed using a particapatory approach, affect children’s experiences of healthcare environments?

see previous post here
Research Title Practice based investigation into children's experience of an interactive play environment within a pediatric healthcare context.
Aims
This project will explore the relationship between interactive architectural spaces and children's experience of their healthcare environment and its affect on their well being. This research will explore how people relate to each other and their spaces in a children's healthcare context.
Research Title Practice based investigation into interactive architectural ecology and how people relate to each other and their spaces within a children's healthcare context.
Aims..oh shit..
what do I want to find out?

This project will explore the relationship between interactive architectural spaces and children's experience of the healthcare environment

accepted for IDEA 2012

well a few seeds are starting to grow..

• accepted for IDEA 2012
• Finally got through the torturous enrollment stage for PhD..so now its official, oh lordy what have I done?
  
• Funding grant accepted (Full funding!! yay)

I finished reading

Art Practice as Research
finally too, not sure about all the claims that Sullivan makes, I need to read some more to piece it all together.specifically research within the PhD framework and the positioning of thge research question up front as it were. Some of the examples I'm not sure are useful for me but the Hockney /camera Obscura example suggested some thoughts to me.
Currently reading;
Creative Research . The Theory and practice of research for the creative industries.
Hillary Collins ava academia (AVA publishing)
Lausanne Switzerland 2010.

finding this very interesting, explains different research philosophies succinctly and helps to position the epistemology upfront in the research. good examples of clear concise yet informed writing too. Also as a designed object the book is great- works well being able to link the diagrams to the writing in a clear understandable manner.
must buy this too!
here it is on Amazon

Art Practice as research

Having completed a funding proposal,2 x exhibition and paper proposals, a PBRF revision (again...) and my statement of expectations - oh and teaching and marking I now get to doe some reading for my own research..
reading Art Practice as Research and looking forward to

Practice as research: approaches to creative arts enquiry

Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt
also

The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts

By Michael Biggs, Henrik Karlsson this from Google books

getting inspired (again..)

Janet Eichelmans's amazing sculpture and Herman Kolgens Dust..