*Workshop #1* Home: a site of resilience
In the context of increasing migration, increasing patriarchal power systems and the increasing injustice and inequalities, the question of a safe domestic space is pressing. The role of design and designers in relation to those issues is equally pressing.
How can designers pursue a research method that collects, activates voices and behaviors not spoken?
Georgina Pantazopoulou and Ilaria Palmieri from Common Ground Practice invite you to explore these topics through the workshop Home: a site of resilience.
The workshop aims to research, explore and share diverse ways of understanding the domestic environment through personal stories and lived experiences. By gathering these narratives, the workshop encourages designers and participants to collectively develop new principles for rethinking and redesigning domestic spaces.
First exercise
In the first activity, participants are invited to draw a room from their home and share their drawing with the group, explaining the significance of the space in their lives.
Second exercise
Next, in the exercise Thinking Otherwise, the group creates a collective canvas—a collage that weaves together their stories and voices on a large piece of fabric, symbolizing their current environments. Participants are encouraged to brainstorm potential changes or interventions for their chosen rooms, inspired by each other’s ideas. This process results in a two-dimensional map that archives their collective aspirations. A transparent layer is then added on top, inviting participants to draw new connections, fostering collaboration and interaction.
Third and last exercise
In the final exercise, Manifesto, participants reflect on their reimagined spaces, exploring the relationship between their current and imagined environments. They are encouraged to express their reflections using any medium—text, drawings, songs, or models. Each manifesto becomes a personal statement, shaped by the insights from previous exercises.
As the workshop concludes, participants perform their manifestos, sharing their creations through readings, presentations, or performances. These manifestos act as new guidelines, empowering participants to reclaim and redefine their domestic spaces. The collective experience is meant to be a research experience to learn or re-learn how to embrace different visions of domesticity.
Registration
There's a maximum amount of 13 participants for this workshop. You can register via this registration form.
IMPORTANT! In case you have to cancel due to unforeseen reasons, please send a message to commonground.inclusive@gmail.com or L.vanroekel@kabk.nl, so we can give your spot to somebody else.
