Fluid Space & Dispersed Consciousness

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Published in ‘Kabul Magazine’
March 2021 - Milan, Italy


Abstract Most of the homes of today still carry the same heteronormative characteristics, causing gender asymmetries and orchestrating if not enacting power imbalances, enforcing behaviors. But as the nuclear family is often relocating to rural or suburban areas, houses are inhabited (and shared) by different bodies that do not consider the house a symmetrical reflection of gender, nor are necessarily interested in reproducing, and would rather have a space that is adaptable and democratic.

Technology and digital media have enabled the single individual to experience a power that was until then unthinkable. The power of boundless freedom. The pandemic has slapped this (mis?) concept showing the reality of an imbalanced relationship with the physical space from which it was only possible to escape through the infinite realm of the internet. The body is still disciplined by architecture, but what would spaces be like if they were disciplined by bodies?

In the end, a house is supposed to enact a sense of commonality, to provide a space that is safe for everyone and not from everyone. Houses should be reshaped based on a vocabulary of bodies, situated in a digital landscape but always characterized by individually unique features that go beyond the genderclass normative of institutionalized architecture. In the era of connectivity, where ‘home’ becomes an infinite digital landscape in the same way the body becomes a series of entities, are we ready to accept the challenge to rethink life, readjust work and refit the body, all within the context of our domesticities? And if so, are we ready to revolutionize our own realities through shaping our spaces and finding freedom from within our homes?  

with Ludovica Galletta for Kabul Magazine

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