Investigating The Cultural Landscape - Lecture Response

During this lecture hosted by Sean Odell, we learned how research is such a key component to successfulness in our work and how we may come across such research. Primary research is a assortment of original research collected by the researcher themselves, which can be found in places such as National Archives, research offices and newspapers. Secondary research involves the summary and synthesis of existing research where the data is collected from research subjects or experiments, such as books, journals and the internet.

As well as this new knowledge to what research we may use and how to use it, we were also informed on his own project, Investigating The Cultural Landscape, which documented the change and development of post-war working class holiday homes. He used primary research like photographing the buildings and landscapes to document as evidence to back up his textual research. The photographs he took clearly represented the change in holiday homes which were decayed, overgrown and lost within the decades compared to the restored, modernised versions of these classic 40's architectural designs.

Although the subject of his project wasn't a huge interest of mine, I did find his examples of documentation and research extremely useful to myself and will without doubt use these techniques in the future.