mardi 24 septembre 2024
à 13:00
en qualité de professeure invitée

The home of insurrection: six propositions on domestic space

Long considered the family's haven of peace, the home is in reality a battleground where economic pressures, environmental necessities and individual desires intersect.

Materialist feminism has taught us that "the personal is political": it is therefore by tracing the evolution of domestic architecture that we can understand how the subjectivity of gender and class has been redefined in the Europe of the age of capitalism.

The lecture will attempt to construct a genealogy of the modern "home", from Serlio to the present day, highlighting the importance of household work and explaining how the typological definition of different rooms evolved in parallel with gender roles.

Studying our history, however, is not a trivial exercise; the aim of this research is to understand that the housing model that corresponds to the nuclear family is not "natural" but rather the result of a long process - and therefore, a model that can, and must, be contested.

Through a critique of the functional crystallization of rooms and the technology that serves them, the conference will seek to rethink the power of typological discourse, a disciplinary tool that has often led architects to repeat tropes, but which could be diverted to open up new perspectives.

If typological experimentation still has potential, then it's up to architects to propose a new domestic imaginary, questioning the possibility of rethinking our lifestyles beyond the concept of the traditional home.