How to make a home
How to make a home considers the advent of the modern interior 鈥� first emerging in the 19th century, as industrialisation brought with it a wave of mass-produced consumer goods. Today, interiors are fetishised through mass media and curated digital content as both an intimate space of family and retreat, walled off from the outside turmoil of daily life, and a staged and ever-changing environment designed to communicate status and identity.
Set within an exhibition design inspired by domestic architecture, How to make a home explores the small universe of home and the material politics of the objects and adornment we live with over time. Responses to dwelling by 14 artists, makers and designers build impressions of private life backdropped by the anxieties of contemporary consumerism and housing instability.
How to make a home takes us from the rise of designer culture to the waste streams of fast interiors, positing that what makes a home is neither opulence nor good taste. Rather, it is the persistence of things that inspire us to feel like we belong.
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How to make a home considers the advent of the modern interior 鈥� first emerging in the 19th century, as industrialisation brought with it a wave of mass-produced consumer goods. Today, interiors are fetishised through mass media and curated digital content as both an intimate space of family and retreat, walled off from the outside turmoil of daily life, and a staged and ever-changing environment designed to communicate status and identity.
Set within an exhibition design inspired by domestic architecture, How to make a home explores the small universe of home and the material politics of the objects and adornment we live with over time. Responses to dwelling by 14 artists, makers and designers build impressions of private life backdropped by the anxieties of contemporary consumerism and housing instability.
How to make a home takes us from the rise of designer culture to the waste streams of fast interiors, positing that what makes a home is neither opulence nor good taste. Rather, it is the persistence of things that inspire us to feel like we belong.
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