Room on Wheels: Speculating on a relationship between private space and people

Room is a unit of society, and each household provides parameters to understand urban living. It highlights the current issues by claiming people’s needs and deals with social expectations to protect an individual’s originality. Due to technological development, individuals perceive their

rooms as a medium to fulfill their desires. However, the way we choose, enter, live, and move from this space has not changed for decades, treated as a universal norm of living space. On the other hand, we detect some sociocultural and technological shifts in the core of the space and surroundings. Given these turbulent role expectations, it is time for us to speculate on this physical space, where we spend most of our time and tend to project our existence.

My thesis starts from an open-ended question of a new relationship between people and private space, believing that home is more than a just means of living. First, it employs exploratory and generative research methods to scoping the project, then it examines the intersection between the most mundane place and emerging urban technology through genuine speculation to stimulate discussion about the current world. The result is rehearsing the future of the room by hypothesizing a mobile home and

fictional organization. Besides, designed artifacts reveal the possible future scenarios and depict an individual’s daily life interacting with their companion-like moving residence.