5–Out of Focus Domesticity
Global contagion has brought about changes at many different scales, including that which we inhabit daily. While the role of the domestic in our lives becomes clearer, our relationship to time and space is beginning to blur. At the same time, we are starting to see attention to the details that emerge in the performance of our constant present. Our daily rhythms have gone awry; we are homing in while spiraling out. With this in mind, this editorial explores what it means to stay at home, as much personal as critical, as much within the confinement of four walls as beyond them. It will delve into topics such as feminism and productive frictions, touching and exploring in digital spaces, the temporary and the temporal, dwelling as postponing, fictions and fiddling, mediums for gesturing, and experiments in designing for the unknown. As the editorial unfolds, some spaces that we reside in may slowly come into focus while others, instead, will open up new questions, paths, and domestic feelings.
Talking with founder Gabriel Kozlowski, we get to know this initiative that is addressing the pandemic by reflecting on the future and offering help on the ground.
Jouw, the store of the experimental gastronomy project Steinbesser, has invited forty designers and artists to re-think plates and utensils.
Can digital exhibitions be laboratories for rethinking bodies in space?
This design for Casa Decor 2020 is worth revisiting as it asks us to question our current moment.
A conversation about the importance of making a show during the process of the total relocation of an arctic town.
From your living room, you can experience this online exhibition that raises important questions.
A very personal “species of spaces” that became our starting point for Out of Focus Domesticity.
An exhibition at ArkDes curated by James Taylor Foster that explores design and ASMR.