Week 6: Stone-The beginning

From our last supervisory meeting following areas had emerged (quoting from the notes):

1. There should be a hint of housing in the title of the PHD

2. Stone appeared to be emerging as the trope for organizing the PHD around; geometric and mathematical explorations should be accompanied by in depth research into Armenian geology and stone/s – processes of its formation, its distribution, different types, its material properties, how it is quarried and cut, tools used, its relations of production and geometries of fabrication. As well as the symbols and cultural meanings it has absorbed over time. Its relations with language as key to Armenian Identity. Stone and language as ways of anchoring a diaspora people to a particular place on earth? Relation to the construction of domestic environments. Rock – religion – culture – identity – daily life - belonging. 

3. Comments about being careful in ascribing the category of reference geometry – instead think of it as two things referencing each other – stone, geometry, stone, house etc.

4. The road – what that the road brings gets absorbed into or taken from the stone? 

5. Work is throwing up questions of national identity, belonging, and, language, culture, symbolism, stone, domesticity and the processes that make these.  

Hence, below is the new, re-structured short term strategy, where the stone is the central idea and the main sub categories cluster around it.

Current short term strategy