'Home is Where Our Things Are: A study of how we occupy the space in which we live.'
This thesis became the story of its own making; a narrative, an autobiography. It was an inductive process, in that in each instance it began with the particular and moved toward the more general. At the outset, the intention was to investigate the idea of 'value', why and what it is that we value, and how this impacts the way that we live. This intention was set in response to the greater issue of the climate crisis and concerned with the role of the architect.
In opposition to a culture of careless disposal, it was considered that in order to respond to (and perhaps counter) such enormous obstacles, we first need to look at the micro-scale of our core values. This began with a series of interviews, then to the author's former apartments, in Vancouver and Dublin, and finally to their final location of the family home.
