HOMInG interview with Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews)Conducted by Paolo Boccagni [PB] and Sara Bonfanti [SB]November 2020 "Homing is a universal practice, not just of human animals but other animals. Homing is a continuous practice: from moment to moment I make myself at home in my body, in my thoughts, in my projects, my … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #50: NIGEL RAPPORT
Homing interview with Peer Smets Conducted by Milena Belloni (Amsterdam, November 2019) "Having some common space is great and produces opportunities for interaction, but the idea that interaction will just emerge spontaneously is not correct. Relationships need guidance, and there are so many obstacles and misunderstandings that hinder encountering each other. For instance, when a … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #49: PEER SMETS
Homing interview with Nathan Lauster (University of British Columbia) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni "Home is developed mostly through personal attachments, first of all between an infant and one or more adult figures. It is fundamentally a matter of moving back and forth between a very familiar, routinized and secure base, and an external environment to … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #48: NATHANAEL LAUSTER
Oscar Molina and Brenda Steinecke Soto [@casademamaicha] have a unique record in film-making on the meanings of home and house among migrants and their dear ones in the countries of origin. Their Mi Casa My Home Trilogy is a groundbreaking exploration of the lived experience of migrant homes, in presence and from a distance. Upon their visit to HOMInG in Trento, autumn … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #47: OSCAR MOLINA AND BRENDA STEINECKE SOTO
HOMInG Interview with Jason Hart Conducted by Barbara Bertolani and Daniela Giudici December 2019 [revised: February 2020] "I don’t want to be essentialist and say that it is human nature to make your space better in most of the circumstances, but certainly what I saw in the Middle East does suggest that people are driven … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #46: JASON HART
HOMInG Interview with Peter J. Braeunlein (University of Goettingen) Conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia September 2020 "A bourgeois home includes objects of remembrance that make one's own family genealogy visible as well as the becoming of an individuals’ own biography and education in the form of books, photographs, wall decoration, inherited kitchenware, and furniture. … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #45: PETER BRAUNLEIN
HOMInG INTERVIEW with KARSTEN PAERREGAARD (University of Gothenburg)Conducted by Sara Bonfanti "If you conduct long-term ethnography with migrant families, you know the risk of romanticising the idea of home. We should be careful, because it’s not only a risk which comes from our part in the ethnographic tale, but also in many migrants’ own life … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #44: KARSTEN PAERREGAARD
HOMInG interview with Jonathan Darling Durham University conducted by Enrico Fravega February 2020 "Homemaking and temporality are fundamentally connected. The process of homemaking involves a significant amount of investment, investing into a place in terms of thinking about a set of aspirations and behaviours. Thinking home is also about, not just relational connections to other … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #43: JONATHAN DARLING
Homing interview with Hazel Easthope (University of New South Wales – Sydney) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni Uppsala, June 2018 "Home is about the relationships that people have with places, not necessarily understood as locations or spaces but as relevant nodes in networks... home is a particularly important kind of node, where lots of things come together … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #41: HAZEL EASTHOPE
HOMInG interview with Rachael Kiddey (University of Oxford) Conducted by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, October 2019 "There is much to be learned by studying the materiality of forced displacement, partly because forced migration and lived experiences of displacement are so often conceived in purely dematerialised terms. [...] It is my contention that emergency shelter for displaced … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #39: RACHAEL KIDDEY
HOMInG interview with Stijn Oosterlynck (University of Antwerp) Conducted by Milena Belloni, October 2019 "I don’t think that homing should be equated to the fact that people like the place where they stay. We often see that people live in substandard places, but are still expressing attachment to it. It is cognitive dissonance. If you … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #38: STIJN OOSTERLYNCK
HOMInG INTERVIEW #37: KEITH JACOBS HOMInG interview with Keith Jacobs (University of Tasmania) Conducted with Paolo Boccagni 7th and 13th November 2019 "For people in very precarious housing - homeless people, refugees, asylum seekers - the symbolic features of the home may actually be more pronounced when compared to the experiences of many people who are happily … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #37: KEITH JACOBS
HOMInG interview with Kim Dovey (University of Melbourne) conducted by Paolo Boccagni November 2019 "I live in Australia where the original inhabitants have 60,000 years of learning how to respect and love a particularly fragile place – that needs to be respected for more than just the emotional connection. As an ordered relation to a … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW # 36: KIM DOVEY
HOMInG interview with Maja Povrzanović Frykman (Malmö University) Conducted by Ilka Vari-Lavoisier November 2019 "Military violence led people to re-discover the place of their daily life in conditions of thorough disruption of normality as they knew it. What can you do if your town is under siege and your home is turned into a place of fear and destruction? … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #35: MAJA POVRZANOVIĆ FRYKMAN
