HOMING INTERVIEW #59: LES BACK "The idea of home makes us see our lives moving through time both looking back and dreaming forward... thinking about home makes us reflect on how we are formed by the place we grew up as children. The idea of home can be prospective and also about the life that … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #59: LES BACK
HOMING INTERVIEW #58: TOM SELWYN "Home actually helps us define who we are. You cannot have a sense of yourself as a person without having a sense of your home linked to different layers ... you can't have a sense of freedom either unless you have a sense of yourself as a person and your … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #58: TOM SELWYN
HOMING INTERVIEW #57: HAGAR KOTEF “How does one develop a sense of home, a sense of belonging, of being in place, when one’s very practice of home and homemaking is destruction of others’ homes? … When we think of home in settler colonialism we must think constantly about these two homes, the one that is … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #57: HAGAR KOTEF
HOMING INTERVIEW #56: AJAY BAILEY "As people age, they start to hold on to something that was from their past. What we've seen with Surinamese elderly is that it's not so much about being a Surinamese person, it was more about: what did I bring from there, what reminds me of home and what can … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #56: AJAY BAILEY
HOMInG Interview with Tasoulla Hadjiyanni Conducted by Barbara Bertolani December 2020 “Home to me is a process, a never-ending quest of trying to create meaning in life through a residential environment. In The Right to Home, I shifted the question from what is home to how people construct home. What I learned is that home … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #54: TASOULLA HADJIYANNI
"We make the concept of home bear so much, and then we situate it within a political system that … makes it hard to reconnect home with politics. This is the reason why there is really this urgency to investigate what it means to have a home, to be at home".
HOMInG interview with Ariel Handel (Tel Aviv University) Conducted by Barbara Bertolani December 2020 "In Arabic and in Hebrew, the word for “home” or “house” is very similar, it’s beit in Arabic and Ba'it in Hebrew. We don’t have in our languages separate words for home and house, so it includes the physical structures and the social and personal … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #52: ARIEL HANDEL
HOMInG interview with prof. Mirjana Lozanovska (Deakin University, Melbourne)Conducted by Paolo Boccagni and Bernardo ArmanniOctober 2020 "Many people are embedded in ideas of spatial nesting scales, especially in geography and architecture. Migration cuts through that, because of the relational dimension – I could be closer to someone overseas than to my neighbour. Migration has a … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #51: MIRJANA LOZANOVSKA
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: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 