HOME VISITS

& COMMUNITY MAPPING

WORK PACKAGE 5 & 6

Detailed Home visit interviews are being conducted to understand how home-based workers have adapted their routines, social interactions, home spaces, and use of the neighbourhood due to home-based work. Outputs include elevation drawings of home workspaces, social maps, and neighbourhood maps. Observations have been conducted at areas where home-based workers may work (i.e., work pods, libraries, cafes), with intercept interviews in the works.

Ribbon Image: Lim Kun Yi James

  • Document and theorise local ecologies of resilience and adaptability in home-based work: Spatial, Social, Digital

    at home: does the home-worker’s housing and home-based ICT infrastructure adequately support their work? How do workers adjust their home to accommodate their work?

    in place: how does home-based work interact with the neighbourhood? Does it contribute positively to the neighbourhood, by adding social or cultural capital (character, services, networks, heritage), or generating shared social and economic responsibilities? How do home-based workers use virtual networks (e.g., platforms)?

NEIGHBOURHOOD

OBSERVATIONS

We have identified a neighbourhood to conduct 39 intercept interviews across three third spaces (library, café, community centre with work pods) to understand how and why home-based workers work in third spaces. The neighbourhood was selected for (1) having these third spaces within walking distance of each other, (2) the community centre has a special pilot where the work pods can be booked for free for up to 2 hours by anyone with access to a phone number. Findings from this work package are planned for an upcoming publication on third spaces.

Drawings by Rebecca Chong and James Lim

Community Centre

Library

Café

HOME-BASED

AUDITS

Drawings: Rebecca Chong & Lim Kun Yi James

Our team has utilised visual methodologies to capture the usage of home spaces to produce diagnostic sections from each home visit. These architectural elevations and plans were created by Student Researchers James Lim and Rebecca Chong under the supervision of PI Lilian Chee. The drawings will be included in an upcoming Design Manual publication. This methodological process and the in-depth case study data are planned for scholarly output, and were previously featured in exhibitions at the Department of Architecture and NUS Central Library.