Un-indoctrinate me

“We have been falling into the hole of individualism, a world in which we somehow prefer to be confrontational, enraged, unconnected with our emotions. Because it fits better the sort of technology in which we are now soaked. You can be a better person and you can build a bridge to go and meet new people instead of confining within your own boundaries.” (Mumford, Gwilym. “Luca Guadagnino on Call Me By Your Name: ‘It’s a Step Inside My Teenage Dreams’.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 22 December 2017.)
After researching the impact of single parent households and communal households, Doing Family proposed a voluntary housing scheme that aims at de-domesticating existing norms , both social and architectural, and normalising emerging, new and ancient households trends outside the nuclear family. Architecturally the project rejects normative domestic architecture of the nuclear family era, rather it searches for a way to be porous, not mediating with walls and doors that enhance the individuation of the family members, rather there are thresholds, height differences, furniture pieces and temperature differences that allow for a different way of dwelling. Could this bring us closer to new kinships, a new social decorum and tolerance?

2018 • architecture • communal living • spatial mediation