design guidelines for the qualitative improvement of the coming back home moment as an everyday practice
Feeling of Home enhancing objects-graduation project_2017
This project presents an artifact-assisted research on the meaning of home for international people living in Eindhoven (NL). An experience-driven design approach has been adopted to analyze the qualities that design should integrate into the creation of the meaning of home, embedding them in a design probe[1]. The design guidelines were obtained through the analysis of insights that emerged from an initial field research and a context-mapping directed through an ethnographic approach. The focus of the research is to find how design can improve the connection between people and their home in the moment of their daily return to it, adding to the coming back moment a set of experiences, aiming to make the user feel the idea of transition from the outside to the inside and understand the concept of objects that are waiting for you at home, transforming the coming back home in a welcoming ritual.
1. J. Forlizzi, J. Zimmerman, ‘The Role of Design Artifacts in Design Theory Construction’, (2008), Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University; 2.
