Dissertation Panic

So here I am on June 18th in a wee bit of a panic over the dissertation project! It's been a while since I've blogged so I'm just going to throw some of the ideas out there to see if my trying to formulate them into some kind of discernible form, it will help to clarify them in my head!

Firstly, I'm going to do a little regroup with what I am doing - Interactive Living for the Domestic Market. Within this, I was looking at both appliances and furniture and through research was led towards designing an interactive table. The key words were ludic engagement, experience, communication and social interaction, home and ambiguity.

With further research, I decided that I wanted to focus on the kitchen. It has long been an important part of the Irish home, not just for cooking and eating but for socialising. How many times have you gone into a house, been offered a cuppa and sat in the kitchen, having a good auld chat!

From this again, I moved towards the idea of using a kitchen island instead of an actual table. I felt it was more inline with 21st century living.

This moved onto the idea of an interactive countertop area, a place where people could interact with both co-located people and distant located people. 

I wanted to use the area of social networking to aid people's lives in the home.