The Dwellbeing Initiative
a collective inquiry into the ways we occupy our spaces
Module: Graduation Project
Mentor: Sweety Taur
Sponsor: NID Ford Foundation Grant
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, Sketchup, Rhinoceros, Enscape, Lumion, Arduino Nano (assoc. electronics)
Mentor: Sweety Taur
Sponsor: NID Ford Foundation Grant
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma, Sketchup, Rhinoceros, Enscape, Lumion, Arduino Nano (assoc. electronics)
National Institute of Design, India
As part of an earlier project, bloks↗, a simple enough question - “What is belonging?” - evolved into a detailed study of the connotations of the word and its meanings within the context of the pandemic.
Building off of that foundation, this graduation project explores the concepts of belonging, our relationship to the spaces we occupy, how we dwell within them, and also the ways in which we develop attachments to the space.
Through the research staged by the core 3 concepts - belonging, spaces and people - this project developed a more focused understanding of our relationship to the spaces we inhabit. Using this, an exploratory terminology of "spatial belonging" was speculated, to clarify a specific kind of attachment that we develop to our spaces. This was further accentuated by the defining of the five aspects that play into influencing our sense of spatial belonging.
Finally, utilising what was learned, The Dwellbeing Initiative↗ was created - a collective inquiry into the ways we occupy, dwell and live within our spaces to understand how these spaces can work towards bettering our wellbeing.
The Initiative aims to inform and induce a sense of spatial belonging, by positioning itself as a place of knowledge access for better spatial living.
This project experience consists of an instagram community (now on hiatus), Digital Dwellbeing, as well as The Dwellbeing Starter Kit - a speculative set of open source phygital objects.
