Non-standard life: exploring the visible and invisible in space

Abstract

　　This study originated at the midnight of the first school day which I heard the onset of Father’s disease and experienced the medical and caring days for nearly two years Inspired by “Nickel and dimed” and “Gang leader for a day ” ethnography method was adopted to observe the communities in the medical space and autoethnography was used to describe what I observed and how I felt during this period The purpose of this study was to discover social institution power relation insufficiency of the physical space and the virtual space and feeling in the mental world from perspectives of a patients’ family a research student and a daughter 　　Three main points from each perspective were found As a family of patient I considered unconscious Father as “mentally awake” so I connected his mental and this physical world with vocal stimuli trying to make him “physically awake" Voice was the abstract of individuation and the individuation meant a projection onto the physical world As a research student seeking for self-worth with self-expectation rather than secular worth was a process of pursuing a complete individual As a daughter I felt the image of Home collapsing in my mental world since I moved out of Home as well as the onset of Father’s disease The belonging and attachment to Home converted into separation due to the physical move out of Home and this was also a process of individuation 　　We concluded that (1) the space was a projection of emotion Existing memory and emotion behind the relation between a person and the space enhanced the emotion to the physical space (2) people were in the process of individuation in their lifetime Pursuing a complete individual is not only a mental distinction but a return As a result more care about physical and mental world in both medical space and home was required so that users would be supported in the future space

Date of Award	2020
Original language	English
Supervisor	Li-wen Sung (Supervisor)