STAY HOME - New perspectives on the home

Date
10.11.2022 - 11.11.2022
Time
08.35
Price
Free with registration

What is home and how do we relate to, inhabit, shape, experience, and use it? Home is described in terms of shape, space, and scale, but also in terms of experiences, relationships, and emotions.

During the corona crisis home became a central yet contested term. What does it mean to stay at home? What makes a home? What about those without a home? The pandemic might be a catalyst for thinking about home in new ways – not only as a safe or as a private space, but maybe also as an unsafe space or a space that is sometimes public or professional. 

The aim of the conference is to share and discuss new perspectives on the home – in particular perspectives that emerge during crises and may inform future conceptualizations of human dwelling. Speakers will deliver research and design perspectives on the home as a physical, social, digital, and existential place in past, present, and future.  

Keynote lectures

  • Professor Joanne Begiato, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University: Making the (un)happy Home: Emotions, Bodies, and Spaces in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.
  • Howard Crosby Butler, Professor of the History of Architecture Beatriz Colomina, Princeton University School of Architecture: The 24/7 Bed
  • Professor Paul Dourish, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine: Homes, Canny and Uncanny: Evolving Strains in Moral Laboratories.
  • Associate Professor Hanna Reichel, Princeton Theological Seminary: Home/alone? – Technologies of Haunting and Belonging.

Download the full program from link at the top of the page.  

Registration
Registration closes on Monday October 17th 2022.

There is no conference fee. The conference includes refreshments during breaks and a sandwich for the lunch break. Please sign up for lunch at the registration page.

It is possible to sign up for either Thursday, Friday or both days.

It is also possible to sign up to follow the conference online via live streaming.

Registration