Projects
Domestic Affairs
The house is a home to the paradox
UABB Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, China
2016
Curators: Agata Jaworska and Saskia van Stein
Graphic identity: Design Displacement Group
Spatial design: Atelier Roosje Klap (ARK)
By delving deeper into the interior, the exhibition Domestic
Affairs tries to understand the paradox of precarious labour
conditions and modes of production in their social, economic
and political impact. The selected designers give meaning
to their work beyond the mere commodity. Their practices
should be understood as cultural signifiers of change: the in-
corporation of local materials and cultural narratives, a notion
of context that empowers communities, aided by collective
thinking and circular economies, co-production schemes or
the establishment of parameters for open source design tools.
Further blurring the boundaries of interiority, the exhibition
Domestic Affairs, the house is a home to the paradox. mani-
fests these changes as they are captured through the house
and the goods and services that reach into and extended
from it.
Photos:
Lard Buurman