TzeKhong, Fong
Design Research Project
Final Year Interior Architecture and Design
Nottingham Trent University
Port Folio: http://fongkhong123.wix.com/justdesign
Design to Help
Design to Help
With a better experience
Surveys
Survey 1 (67 respondents)
1.What is your gender?
-Female x 43 (66.15%)
-Male x 22 (33.85%)
Total - 65
2.What is your age?
-18 to 24 x 45(68.18%)
-25 to 34 x 8(12.12%)
-35 to 44 x 9(13.64%)
-45 to 54 x 3(4.55%)
-55 to 64 x 1(1.52%)
Total - 66
3. What is your occupation?
- Student x 52
-Sales x 2
-Writer x 1
-Teacher x 2
-Doctor x 1
-Pilot x 1
-Housewife x 2
-Clerk x 1
-Accountant x 1
-Shop assistance x 1
-Lawyer x 1
Total – 65
4. Do you or some one in your household experienced a natural disaster such as an earthquake, severe windstorm, or tornado, flood, wildfire, or other type of natural disaster?
-Yes x 32(48.48%)
-No x 34(51.52%)
Total - 66
5.If “Yes”, which of these natural disasters have you or some one in your household experienced?
-Drought x 2(6.06%)
-Earthquake x 12(36.36%)
-Flood x 12(36.36%)
-Landslide/ Debris flow x 1(3.03%)what
-Wildfire x 3(9.09%)
-Household fire x 5(15.15%)
-Tornado x 3(9.09%)
-Winter Storm x 8(24.24%)
Total – 32
6.How do you feel if you lost your house in a natural disaster?
-Lost
-Hopeless
-Sad
-Feel Mad
-Angry
-Devastated
-I don’t know
-Bad
-Helpless
-Distraught
-Can event begin to imagine
-Frustrated
-Unsure
-Lost
-Upset
-Disappointed
-Horrible
-Clueless
-Heartbroken
Total – 57
7. Please rank the following in order of importance to you and 4 is least important to you.
8. Where do you think you will go if you’re lost your housing during a natural disaster?
-Seek for help from Government x 8(11.94%)
-Seek for help from those Homeless Organizations x 4(5.97%)
-Seek for help from families or relatives x 55(82.09%)
Total – 67
9. Would you seek for help from those Homeless Organization, if you cannot get a help immediately?
-Yes x 43(65.15%)
-No x 23 (34.85%)
Total – 66
10. If “No”, what is the reason?
- I can help myself
-I don’t know how to contact them
-I don’t know
-I don’t know if they could help
-Feel weird
-I don’t want to get help from them
-I don’t think its work
-I feel shame
- I have no knowledge of who they are or what they can do
-Wouldn’t be of much help, would probably lack funding as I live in the third world
-Don’t know how to contact them
-Not sure, if I success to search for help from my relatives and friends, then I would rather not to search for help from the organizations
-I have many family around that would offer me the support but if I didn’t have family support then yes I would seek help from the homeless organization.
From this research the aim is to investigate what kind of natural disaster usually people face; and how they feel if they lost their important belongings like house in a natural disaster; and experiment about people’s knowledge of ability to survive; and whether they are willing to accept help from the others without seeking help from families and friends; and their observations about homeless organizations.
From the survey, the result are quiet satisfied; the most frequent natural disaster people met are earthquake and flood; if they lost their important belongings, they will feel lost, hopeless, sad, feel mad, angry, devastated, bad, helpless, distraught, frustrated, unsure, lost, upset, disappointed, horrible, clueless and heartbreak. After a disaster, the most important things that they ranked is foods and water, second is temporary living, third is medical supplies and last is daily supplies. From the survey, the answers show that most of the people still choose to seek for help from families and friends, only few of them would seek for help from government and organizations. Those refuse to seek for help from organizations said that, they can help themselves, they don’t know how to contact them, the don’t know if its work
Survey 2
1.What is your gender?
-Female x 50(71.43%)
-Male x 20(28.57%)
Total-70
2. What is your age?
-18 to 24 x 55(78.57%)
-25 to 34 x 12(17.14%)
-35 to 44 x 2(2.86%)
-65 to 74 x 1(1.43%)
Total-69
3. What is your occupation?
- Student x 58
- Designer x 5
- Sales x 2
-Reporter x 1
-Doctor x 1
-Banker x 1
- Housewife x 1
Total-69
4. Do you ever concerns about what’s going on in the world now?
-Yes, I do x 30(43.48%)
-Sometimes x 32(46.38%)
-Not really x 5(7.25%)
-No, I don’t care x 2 (2.90%)
Total-69
5. What kind of resources you usually use to catch up the latest news in the world?
-Television x 42(60%)
-Radio x 22(31.43%)
-Newspaper x 36(51.43%)
-Magazines x 23(32.86%)
- Posters and Images x 13(18.57%)
-Internet resources x 62(88.57%)
-Social media x 55(78.57%)
-Friends and family x 51(72.86%)
-Events and activities x 12(17.14%)
Total-70
6. Do you know that there are many people who facing the lost of their houses and families in the changes of climate and natural disaster?
-Yes x 61(88.41%)
-No x 1(1.45%)
-I don’t know x 7(10.14%)
Total-69
7. Have you ever seen or heard of an “Emergency Shelter”?
-Yes x 52(74.29%)
-No x 18(25.71%)
Total-70
8. Do you know the functions and significances of an “Emergency Shelter”?
-Yes x 34(48.57%)
-No x 36(51.43%)
Total-70
9. Do you think that transferring the idea of an Emergency shelter to a backpacker hostel will be very interesting and workable?
-Yes x 18(25.71%)
-Maybe x 42(60%)
-No x 6(8.57%)
-I don’t know x 4(5.71%)
Total-70
10. Do you want to give an experience and try on it if there is a backpacker hostel like this?
-Yes x 36(51.43%)
-No x 29(41.43%)
-No x 5(7.14%)
This survey is to investigate how frequent people update their news information, investigate what kind of resources they usually used to update their knowledge, and also to investigate their knowledge about emergency shelter. This survey also research about the solutions of this research project whether it is workable.
From the survey, it proved that many people did update themselves with news, which mean it is a good sight that they did care about what is going on; other than that, the result shows that most of the people update their knowledge by using internet resources and social media. The result also proved that most of the people know what is an emergency shelter but half of them don’t know the function and significances of it. Beside that, the idea of backpacker hostel seem will be workable because many people think that is might be working and most of them willing to try if there is on of it.