Boogazine

So, one of the things that i will be working on in my final year at uni is my Boogazine, here is a short brief we have been given to start our research over the summer;


Boogazine

In Semester 1 you will be required to produce a document called the “Boogazine”, a piece of research and critical enquiry in the form of a magazine. Significant emphasis should be given to visual material in the work.

You are required to propose an object that you wish to research and to take a particular critical position about that object. ‘Object’ in this context is something that exists, or has existed in historical time. It could be anything as long as it:

a.       connects directly to interior design/architecture and

b.      you can research it in depth in order to develop and sustain a line of critical enquiry.

It should be also be something that you personally find interesting. It can be a building or interior, but it could also be for example, a film, design movement, item of furniture, architectural style , designer, book etc.. Your Boogazine should aim to find something new to say about the object.

One of the ideas i have had is to look into Psychology in design and how the two work together which is often unnoticed. Here are a few things i could look into;

• Familiarisation
• Association
• Subconscious
• Subliminal messages
• Colours
• Emotional attachments
• Memory triggers
• Cultural preferences and differences
• Designing for the situation (eg dentists-stressful-de stressing environment)
• Environmental influences
• Deception
• Behaviour  or emotion changes due to a design.

This picture shows how the same room can be so different. Even though the structure of the walls and the size of the rooms are the same, you would experience each room differently simply because of things like different colours, position of objects, and how cluttered the space is.