Category Archives: Action Research Project

Rationale

I am interested in exploring the relationship with architecture interior spaces and students sense of belonging and comfort in their spaces of learning, from studio spaces, workshops, lecturer theatre study spaces and a connection with community through social spaces and … Continue reading

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Action Plan

Ethics form – DONE Get feedback and signed off Ethics form – DONE Focus group interviews and tour – DONE 3rd student interview – DONE Digital Survey – DONE Capture outputs – DONE Collate feedback – DONE Presentation slides – … Continue reading

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Research Methods

Audio recordings, then made into transcripts with Otter App. Focus Group interviews with 2 students, for 2.5 hours and a buildings tour   Interview with student 3 for 1hr on Teams Survey Microsoft forms, 7 students participated  Photographs of spaces … Continue reading

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Ethics

Version 4 form was approved by my tutor Lindsay Jordan

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Participant-facing documents

Students 1&2, I had in-depth focus group interviews and a walk through building tour, I recorded the conversation on an audio recorder. This student 3 below, I had in-depth conversation on Teams, I recorded our conversation I asked 11 students … Continue reading

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Presentation

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Project Findings

Interviews results Spatial experience is connected to emotion, feeling and mood, this provides the sense of belonging The importance of an art college campus as place of comfort with personal working space. Almost all students were unsatisfied with their new … Continue reading

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References

Paul, A, M. (2021) The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain Wong, B. (2023) Exploring the spatial belonging of students in higher education, Studies in Higher Education Corazzo, J. (2022) Studio through studio: A diffractive reading of … Continue reading

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