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 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
