A3. Window Diary, Mapping the Intangible

How to Define the Contextual Qualities

The every day life is mostly defined by a series of repetitions and a great deal of mechanical actions which we don't even think about while doing them. We tend to take the repeated actions and the phenomenas that are related to them for granted and sometimes they don't even get registered. The one thing that probably is the same for a lot of these phenomenas would be the awareness of their absence if they would change or somehow disappear from our every day life. The action of opening a window is probably not that unacquainted to anyone but which phenomenas are actually related to this action? And where do you start looking if you want to observe and map these phenomenological aspects of the every day life?

Is your mood effected by the shadows on the wall?

Are you pulling the curtains back to look outside or be seen - and if the curtains and transparent, what purpose do they have, anyway?

How does my presence inside relate to the light setting, the weather conditions or in general the life going on outside?

These are some of the questions to consider, while intending to observe the intangible. 

Is it necessary to observe the tangible first to be able to observe the intangible? Isn't it at least the intension to be able to relate the intangible to the tangible in the end?

Maybe, if it is possible to relate the intangible and the tangible, it is possible to define a new tangible phenomena to relate the intangible to?

Light? Weather? Reflection?

" We must remember that everything depends on how we use a material, not on the material itself (...) so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day." (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)

The Body as Context:

Observing the repetitions and the relation to the body.

Time becomes an aspect already due to the repetition