Framing questions are very important when starting to look at a project. Every time I start a project that maybe needs to be adjusted in some way or another I always forget to go back and look at my framing question. By the time I do, it is so clear that having a good framing question completely changes how creating a project can go. More and more I am trying to hone my framing questions in a way that they will lay out a path for how to go on.
I’ve also been finding that there can be more than one framing question. For example, I would split my concentration topic into two framing questions about the different strands that connect in my concentration. My first question would be, is it better for one theory to have a monopoly on application in a given subject or for multiple theories to be used through one application? This would frame the exploration I have of sustainability versus resiliency in environmentalism. Another framing questions would ask, how can urban planning be tailored based on geography? These both result in a focus question of, how can resiliency be introduced to the preexisting structure of sustainable urban planning in unique geographic regions, such as the Pacific Rim?