Diffused Domesticities
Séminaire de Théorie Contemporaine
HEAD – Genève
2024 - ...
Diffused Domesticities explores the construction of a recent history of domestic architecture through the lenses of feminist, queer, crip, and decolonial studies. The course examines the material conditions of our everyday built environment by studying their political and disciplinary constructions. Over twelve sessions, it interrogates the power relations embedded in the interactions between built space and inhabiting bodies. Sleeping, cooking, working, cleaning, washing, caring, welcoming, and having sex are examined as practices of governed intimacy, deeply shaped by the forms of Western modernity. Second-year Bachelor students are invited to explore alternative materializations of these practices through a case study exercise.