HOMING INTERVIEW #60: RAHUL RAO "At the end of the day, home is a boundary making project. And so we always have to ask: where is the boundary drawn, and what is the consequence of drawing the boundary somewhere, in space as well as in time? What happens to the people, animals and objects outside … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #60: RAHUL RAO
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
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 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 Loretta Baldassar (Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni in Perth in August 2019 "Home is a very different place depending on who’s left there. The kinning of people is very much tied to the kinning of place. Once your parents die, unless you have very close … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #33: LORETTA BALDASSAR
HOMInG interview with Gordon Mathews (Chinese University of Honk Kong) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni Trento, September 2019 "Home is an ideal that is overwhelmingly positive for almost everybody. In reality it often does not fit that. There are hundreds of millions of people, or probably billions of people, for whom the actual home they feel is lacking – whether … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #30: GORDON MATHEWS
Homing Interview #15: Dirk Geldof HOMInG interview with Dirk Geldof Senior Lecturer at the University of Antwerp and at Odisee University College Brussels. Conducted by Milena Belloni in Berchem, Antwerpen on 12th July, 2018. Photos by Jorge Alcalde. Extracts from the series "Antwerp... in the year 5777" : the Jewish quarter” and "A stroke of light...the neighbourhood" … Leggi tutto HOMInG interview #15: Dirk Geldof
HOMInG's interview no. 12 (in Italian) is with Antonio Tosi (Politecnico di Milano), a leading scholars in housing studies in Italy. "Unlike 'dwelling', the concept of home enables us to move beyond bricks-and-mortar. It foregrounds, as a value, our relationship with a more or less extended surrounding space. This traditionally corresponds to our neighbourdhood, and … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #12: ANTONIO TOSI
Homing Interview #5: Melissa Butcher Conducted by Sara Bonfanti, on Sept. 12th 2017 "From the perspective of social and cultural geography, home is a set of relationships and everyday practices with spatial and temporal dimensions. Participants in my work most often describe it as a space of comfort and security, whether that is a physical home of … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #5: Melissa Butcher
Homing interview #3 Interview with Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes University) Conducted by Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda on 12 July 2017. "I am a geographer and what I do is trying to understand how the relationship between people and place changes through movement". Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes University). Photo credit: Therese Lee Støver. More … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #3: Cathrine Brun
Read the second Homing Interview! A dialogue with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (www.hondagneu-sotelo.org), conducted by Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda on 24 May 2017. https://homing.soc.unitn.it/homing-interviews/
Read the first Homing Interview! A dialogue with Irene Cieraad (Delft University of Technology), conducted by Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda on 10 May 2017. https://homing.soc.unitn.it/homing-interviews/
