Troubling Domesticities is a disgn research class, based on the observation that space plays an active role in maintaining power relations between bodies and subjectivities. Focusing on domestic spaces, it argues that our material environment is not a neutral backdrop accommodating the everyday lives of predefined identities and social interactions, but rather actively participates in shaping them. 
The spatial analysis of pre-existing experiences of characters from films selected by students, combined with critical readings of texts from architectural theory and queer, feminist, crip, and decolonial studies, serves as a starting point for students. By transforming the material conditions of domestic movie scenes, students seek to imagine alternative narratives for our everyday environments — ones that could create, at least in the specific setting of the movie scene, space for non dominant bodies and subjectivities.
This class is part of the JMA program, and takes place at MAIA. Photographs : © HEAD – Genève Sylvain Leurent.

TO DO THE LAUNDRY, a reinterpretation of a scene from Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, 2018, by Sawako Bolch, Navya Balakrishnan, Frida Law, Sofia Tapia Buchelli. 

TO CLEAN, a reinterpretation of a scene from Parasite, Bong Joon-Ho, 2019, by Giada Pettenati, David Röder, Célia Tourette. 

TO NURSE, a reinterpretation of a scene from Amour, Michael Aneke, 2012, Cloé Eischen, Anna Karina Zepeda Aranda, Patrycja Krystosiak.

TO WORK, a reinterpretation of a scene from The Secretary, Steven Shainberg, 2002, by Matilde Arletti, Martino De Grandis, Karol Szmigielski.

TO DANCE, a reinterpretation of a scene from Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingston, 1991, by Lina Zoé Laube, Hugo Schmitt, Kim Sherin Schonauer.