Interior Reuse
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THE DOMESTIC IMAGINARY
‘Once a sanctuary from prying eyes, the home is now a geotagged broadcasting studio from where we share our most intimate moments and display our carefully curated online identities’
SQM: The Quantified Home. Space Caviar. Lars Muller: 2014. P23.
Home is a universal theme. It describes a place, often a collection of rooms, which encapsulate all forms of human relations and behaviours. It is also the space that personifies experimentation in how we live, speculations on finance, ownership and the asset: the commodifying of privacy. The home is the site for improvement, maintenance, regulatory governance and standards. And of course, in current times, it is the place where we all now undertake work. In essence, the home has always been the most public of private spaces. This year, Interior Reuse has asked its participants to speculate on the futures of the home. The Domestic Imaginary is a deep-research approach that will explore how, in countries such as the UK, housing is highly contested: and mostly reliant on the values of an ageing historic stock of housing. A situation that, arguably, imbues its population with a historic mindset to their own home.
The Domestic Imaginary requires its participants to reconsider what home means in the 21st century. It reused the Lenster Gardens Ghost Facade and the cut and (un)cover underground tunnel behind it as the site for its investigations.
Professor Graeme Brooker
Image: Show-Home, Lu Yan.