Master’s Project
Home of the Future

The following is a shorter summary of my Master’s Project. Should you be interested in reading it yourself, click here. My grades were the following: A on writing, B on oral, C on art, which adds up to B overall. I was pleasantly shocked by the results.

In his book called “Inhabitation in Nature: Houses, People and Practices”, David Clapham claims that the reason I don’t own a home is because current housing research models are insufficient. That claim seemed so ridiculous that I had to investigate the matter. With each argument he presented my complacency slowly morphed into horror as central issue only grew. It was connected to linguistics, new materialism, praxeology, ecology, and politics all rooted together by a single idea: A home is more than just a building.

Current research models fail to properly define what a home is or isn’t. Which is why Clapham presents a new research model and methodology to solve it, alongside an appeal to the research public to test the model with some qualitative research. My Master’s was an Arts Based Research project to “stress-test” his model – I input “incorrect data” in the form of absurdist photography, then perform an artistic inquiry on the “output data.”

Once you see a child licking the handrail of an escalator the lines that separated culture and nature begins to blur. If bacteria could speak, some of them would probably express appreciation for the climate control, as they don’t need to fight fungal bacteria. These relational aspects are intuitive to me, not so much when I tried to explain to my fellow students what I was doing for 6 months.

I went into the deep-end with the Canvas of Babil, and examined the issue of infinite interpretation, home, and The Other – All to find the promised land.