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SQM The Quantified Home
ISBN: 9783037784532
(PB - E)
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In 1968, the first Interieur Design Biennale in Kortrijk marked a point in time when the home was the main site not only of investigation, but for potential social change in the work of architects and designers. Yet the domestic realm progressively disappeared from the agenda over the subsequent decades, in parallel with the increasing marketization of real estate. As the financial crisis of 2008 made visible, homeownership became one more financial instrument to generate revenue-at the same time excluding the younger generations from the property market for the foreseeable future.
The square meter can be regarded as the basic unit of a new condition of unstable domesticity. The extent of individual movements, new social patterns, and different family models are all reshaping the very objects that surround us. Yet, this change has gone largely uncharted. By mapping the multiple fluctuations and meanings of one square meter, this project explores how global forces are transforming the scale of the home, from the urban scale down to furniture elements. SQM will draw on contributions from architects,designers, artists, and theorists, in order to bring the space of the domestic interior back into the debate.
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