T H E M E / D I S C I P L I N E : S O C I A L  I N E Q U A L I T Y 

I N T E R E S T S : Instead of particularly state 'working with the feelings,' "understanding strangeness and intimacy," is the main theme that aims to explore the effect of emotion in the designed space

A I M S : Because every class level is oblivious about thinking and understanding the system thoroughly, and because people know but do not feel a certain emotion, I want to create a mirror of the hidden problem to encourage the ‘realization,’ not only know.

10.02.20

Researching on the theme of interest revolves around the emotional state in the human response towards a specific topic, persuaded me to look into a relevant disciplinary subject or global issues. The HBO Voyeurism imparted the channel's viewers, towards the mesmeric environment and how they watched its production, being in the controlled paradigm. "The audience becomes voyeurs" was what stated in my reading. In the idea of sub-consciousness, people were captured by the activity contained inside the see-through apartment, which allowed them to engage in a universal level but, unexpected and unusual. There was a strange feeling that appeared in the context that also prompted nostalgia or resembling comprehension. The digital experience sounded very anecdotal to me and visually unreal plus absorbed. 

Another research on strangeness I found in Greg Lynn's idea was that he intentionally referred this topic to the emotional attachment to the architectural view. I discovered him in the book, "Other Space Odyssey"s when I was studying the imaginative design in the space. I wanted to understand the feasibility of visionary architecture and technology, so I chose this writing for that intention. I also thought about a fictional realm that thought about the design work or the architecture itself more rather than other aspects. What I found immensely captivating was Lynn's talk about his "N.O.A.H" that it purposefully gave its space to the buildings like "White House" or "Central Park." The way he mentioned the surreal image also resembled "New City," which built various territories, Europe and Asia, for example, to provide the extras.

I was interested in the fact that there was something about the strangeness that HBO Voyeurism and Lynn's perspective, which was hard to express in words, had that kind of feeling that the thoughts had never been so far away from reality but, it felt bizarre. 

11.02.20

The workshops on doing research today gave me some thoughts about how I could connect my interests to the disciplines. There were many ideas on my mind, to begin with, I used to think about the world unification, inequality, and climate change during my leisure. As the theme, strangeness, also voices here, uniting the global society was something that addressed the connecting people. I could see that it happened simultaneously, rapidly such that now everyone forgot that we used to be more isolated and found it less absurd. Secondly, social discrimination could revoke the unconnected, the gap, illustrating the hidden problem which had always been prevalent but untypical to talk or sometimes think about it. Lastly, the environment and global warming were a concern to me because even though the awareness always had a prominent role nevertheless, society normalized the problems, and the unfriendly capitalism did less than it should do.

I also got a chance to talk about my assessment feedback and my approach towards the research tasks. For the presentation sheets, I should improve my consistency in my design demonstration so, it became easy to follow and see my direction from where I was. There were various choices for showing the outcomes but, it was necessary to contextualize the result because there should have been some interpretative views and the implementation in space specifically, for instance, user experience, the visual context in community. Moreover, the experimentation could have been interesting; the tested models were the paths to the finalizing the design ideation. The experimented work could have emphasized the response to my interests and putting more organization could make the portfolio look more pleasant. 

13.02.20

I always heard of the structural problem in Thailand that began to surface in this modern era.  The high-and-low viewpoint I could see in the metropolis, Bangkok, compared to Parasite, was so comparative and juxtaposed. The levels as divided classes were: the SkyTrain, the tollways, the roadwork on the ground and the sidewalk in my capital city. The sorting of capital investment became wealth categorizing for the class division in my version. Similarly, parasite communicated this problematic structure in the architecture and geographically physical levels. If I looked at the elevated toll road then slowly lower my sight set on the infrastructure, from the higher place to SkyTrain to the roadway, I could picture the social division as different levels operating at the same time. Likewise, Parasite conceivably implied the rich-poor gap using the edge of a mirror, stairs, and slope to expressed the established social environment that every audience overlooked. I thought that maybe Bong also wanted to say that this problem was not commonly mentioned but still, in the awareness. It was, not far from thinkable and imaginable, overwhelmingly complicated and familiarly strange. the audience understood yet, surprised because the unfairness, struggle, fight, and anger barely showed themselves regarding the social status. Because of being at the lowest point made the characters lived in the shadow, we felt strange to see the desperation to survive.  The contrast was strong enough to feel complex when strolling in the city. I usually experienced a mixture of scenarios because I used various transportation types in a day. 

It could be comparative when I finished Parasite and the Thai structural problems. The expression in yielding the higher division happened in the town planning system, the contrary condos and middle-class apartment, 

14.02.20

Limited, B. (2020). Thai inequality: What we should know. [online] https://www.bangkokpost.com. Available at: https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1840739/thai-inequality-what-we-should-know [Accessed 18 Feb. 2020].

As there are 'layers' and 'level' in the social structure, we are divided - under the circumstance of normalization. Either it is conformed in the 'reality' or 'fiction' (whether the extent of the conceivability is large or small) if it is normalized, that conceivability turns dull and makes the discrimination transparent. And so, the perceptions change.

This text was my brief conclusion for the encountered research of interests: virtual world and films (social inequality). Outwardly, the main subject could magnified 'conceivability' to setting instead of 'familiar-strange' title. 

15.02.20

The visit to the Museum of Childhood was new and inspiring to the research exploration. In the beginning, I planned to look into the toy house structure, which projected the made-up world for children's imagination. The building simulation was theoretically similar to the virtual reality or animation I supposed, which was dreamlike, having that familiar-strange value. I remembered my tutor telling me about the blocking or box features and the HBO Voyeurism that actually looked like. Then, when I did more analysis of the Parasite film, in the mirror perspective, I thought that I might try to experiment with the photography adaptation. I improvised the scene as parallelism in-between; noting that some were needless for meaning.

18.02.20

For today's session, I had a beneficial opportunity to discussed with my classmates about the proposal ideas. They imaginatively reviewed it because now, we could be more critical about the research as everyone had done a lot and gained knowledge even from the old studies. 

I could see the flaws in my concept and how complicated when it came to an explanation. In front of my friends, the most problematic thing was the depth of it. So, I kind of get the fact that I visualized the form in my head but, I never really explained the function and the engagement with the end-users. The context sounds very vaguely wide and hard to understand how the idea would apply to the architectural design as well. At first, I aimed to reflect the discipline, inequality, upon only Bangkok and London, seeing both capital cities as each other's reflections. Maria gave the opinion that this social issue happened around the world so, maybe I could play with the other country's same topic. That view ultimately made me reconsidered both my representational perspectives and presentation methods. I reread my proposal after the discussion and noticed that there was confusion about my inspiration and the mention of the mirror, which I meant to compare Bangkok and London. Another complexity spotted in the practical visualization in which I was not confident about what I wanted things to be like. Because of that, I came up with the suspending presentation and casting the moving image on it. I gave Winnie the research idea of Cinta Vidal, who was also my reference. I looked into the work again and told my friend that with your concept about overlapping the class structure, she could divide the planes from different sides and kind of show how she could composite the two distinguish or similar levels of social structure at the edges. I felt like the picture flashed up in my mind and thought about dividing the definition. Because Parasite also implicated its minimal layers whereas Vidal used the dimensional effect, dimetric axonometric projection and many tilt isometrics, through the means of evolutional buildings or hybrid. If I could curate and portray a suitable angle adjustment, it might affect the unbalancing feelings. 

24.02.20

As I researched the rich-poor gap context last week, I decided to draw the comparison and link the similarity found in them. I thought about things I never saw and experienced before then, came to the thinkings of the conceivability . This trade was about how not absolute human conceiving the world was. 

25.02.20