Dominant Discourses and Further Research: A final Position Statement

Modernity and age

Aspects of modernity feature in most of the photographic data collected. Evidence of human progress and technology is prevalent throughout many of the images. The collective data shows the gradual development of human progression through the application of modernisation to buildings much older than the technology being applied and others where the technology is built in. Further research into this area of interest could continue to examine the effects of modernising older and ancient buildings, perhaps concluding positive and negative results from a variety of angles e.g., practical use, heritage , ethical issues, construction.

Modernity, Location and Rurality

On a wider scale, research could be made to discover the extent of which human progression is portrayed through technology on the home exterior. Perhaps it is regionalised or a specifically urban or rural occurrence?

Discourses

Discourse	Sub discourse
location	way of life adaptation place in the world
Climate	geographical position temperature fertility status mental well being
Farming - productive	animals crops labourers wellie boots
Human occupation	shelter love use
Neglect	sorrowful untended poor sadness
Ownership	Bourgeois worth power
age	time degrading ancient modern awesomeness
Sociality	friends family happiness community spirit
Modernity	technology busyness connectivity newness present reality upon timeless world
Public/ private	Possessions sub discourse bourgeois society
Rurality	open land far from civilisation farming hills small communities

Research progression table

Positives	negatives
Some data has been extracted	Finding time to travel to gather images
Data reflects some patterns in discourses	Suitable weather conditions for gathering images
Modernity of home exterior possibly a key theme to focus research on	What to make of the extracted data?
Mind mapping discourses worked well	couldn't upload mind map had to convert into table