C.A.R.A. asbl
Centre d'Assistance
à la Recherche et à la
Formation en Architecture

Informations pratiques :

• Date: 29/1/2015, 18:00.
• Venue: Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture – Lecture Hall – 36 Bedford Square – London WC1B 3ES.
  
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Extrait :

A conversation about domestic space, to present the book SQM: The Quantified Home (edited by Space Caviar and published by Lars Müller; produced for the 2014 Biennale Interieur). The home, once a site of architectural investigation, experiment, and potential social change, is being transformed into a commodity—a “bitcoin for oligarchs” in the words of Bruce Sterling. The domestic interior registers a new social paradigm whereby postwar welfare has given way to neoliberal visions of sharing. Privacy, comfort, and stability are rapidly becoming a thing of the past…