Diffused Domesticities

Séminaire de Théorie Contemporaine

HEAD – Genève 

2025 – ...

Diffused Domesticities explores the construction of a recent history of domestic architecture through the lenses of feminist, queer, crip, and decolonial studies. The course examines the material conditions of our everyday built environment by studying their political and disciplinary constructions. Over twelve sessions, it interrogates the power relations embedded in the interactions between built space and inhabiting bodies. Sleeping, cooking, working, cleaning, washing, caring, welcoming, and having sex are examined as practices of governed intimacy, deeply shaped by the forms of Western modernity. Second-year Bachelor students are invited to explore alternative materializations of these practices through a case study exercise. Students of the 2025 class:  Martin Annen, Ambre Gravina, Zoé Mettraux, Bryan Reyes, Nassim Baron, Alexia Sahman, Mireille Gidi, Alexis Lang, Luca Negro, Kateryna Sushynska, Giona Léo Baumann, Benjamin Dohollou, Hippolyte Giraud, Elise Mathis, Norah Pittet, Yan Vasquez.