Home of the Future

Abstract

This thesis is a qualitative arts-based research project investigating the current state of housing policies via the work of David Clapham. He recommends reforming housing studies with new tenets around the concept called “Inhabitation”, which combines New Materialism and practice theory. This concept comes with a model, and the central objective of this project is to test its validity. The reason I’m exploring this topic is because of the current trajectory regarding housing for the future. Being an arts-based project, the method is using photography to “stress-test” the model via inputting intelligible data and examining the results – No broad modifications to the model seem necessary at the time. However, it led to an interesting artistic exploration of the relationship between Home and Time, and The Other, shedding some light on some older obscure topics.