My Room
Fall 2022
ARC 500 Undisciplinary Practice | Instructor: Edgar Rodríguez | Individual
In this project, we were encouraged to use our knowledge of architecture as a discipline to explore other fields. At that time, I hadn't yet learned programming nor game development, so I attempted to show a small point-and-click game by using a sequence of images. Perhaps it doesn't even count as a game, yet the boundaries of what a 'game' is remain a very blurry concept. In this course, we explored the boundaries and possibilities of architecture; so, as a systematic discipline, how does gaming define its own boundaries? What are the similarities and differences between a 'disciplined' game and what we refer to as games in a general sense? In Huzinga's Homo Ludens, he associates fundamental human activities with play, but when it comes to the realm of virtual and electronic world, what would happen? Ok let's stop. That is another topic.
In any case, I am a nostalgic person and I miss my small little room very much. This is how this little work came to be: to put a small full stop on the chapter of changes this little room has witnessed.

(Written in 2022)
I have moved to this room since 2007. Until these years, I will still live here when I go back to my hometown. I slept in this room when I was in elementary school. After graduation, I started to live in school, and later, for the convenience of going to school, even on weekends, I lived in another place. When I was in high school, I rarely lived in this place anymore. For more than ten years, various things from my elementary school have been kept intact in this room. Every time I step into this room, the memories from that time start to emerge. My identity as a high school student and the fact that I have grown up are constantly being rubbed and questioned in this room. I
have been clamoring to redecorate the room for a long time, and finally last year when I was going to go back to the United States for college, my mother accepted with my decision. The only furniture in this room is a desk, a bed, and a closet. I haven’t even use them yet. It is a semi-finished room for me, it is a room that only exist from images.

