History, Theory, Criticism
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Situating Domesticity in Architecture brings together academics that challenge established notions of domesticity related to home, architecture, and space to re-interrogate inherent relationships among these tenets. This international workshop provides a forum to articulate changing disciplinary discourses and their effects on histories and theories by asking such questions as: Can domesticity allow us to negotiate complex situations and processes while also thinking materially about the lived spaces that produce self and society? Do domestic material expressions contest or cross geopolitical boundaries? What are the disciplinary implications of using domesticity as a critical lens to look at home and identity? More than the terms ‘home’ and the ‘interior,’ domesticity implicates gender, sexuality, labour, class, ethnicity and taste. It suggests certain productions, be it biological, material, psychological, social or national.
Within these diverse domains, domesticity concerns performative bodies in space as occupants, tenants, parents, grandparents, children, maids, architects, designers, builders, state-representatives. And, it involves spatial practices which represent, reproduce, construct and govern these bodies. By highlighting these and other aspects of domesticity and domestic spaces/practices, we reconsider the implications that recent national and global changes bring to studies of home and rootedness across disciplines that include architecture, urban space and planning, geography, anthropology, landscape studies and ethnography. Collectively, we are interested in the politics and poetics of domestic space related to: policies, consumerism, (de)colonization, gender/race/ethnicity, migration, nation building, media culture, territorial conflict, economic liberalization, and technological developments in building processes and products. Join us as we instigate the theorization of domestic spaces and ‘homes’ across diverse geographical, political and cultural boundaries and regions, and uncover significant overlaps in our increasingly fragmented world.
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Date—
7-8 December 2017
Venue—
Create Building, Level 7 SDE, NUS U-Town
https://situatingdomesticities.com/
Supported by the NUS HSS Seed Fund
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