Drawing Conversations 5: What and Where Is Home?

Mitchell, B. (Presented paper)

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Description of Activity

Presented 'Cultivating home: drawing interiors.'

Period	15 Mar 2024
Event type	Conference
Location	Online, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

New Materialism
architectural line
cloud point data
diffraction

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Interiors are the spaces that we inhabit daily, where we move and connect with our material existence. They structure the social fabric of our lives; where and how we eat, sleep, work, and meet with others. Interiors are multiple: they may be domestic, spaces of recreation, institutions, workspaces, or the circulation routes that we walk through within a city. They anchor our bodies in architectural space through haptic, proprioceptive, and subjective engagement with the surrounding environment. They impact on how we live and how we all live well together – and yet they are conceived and produced through a confined set of tools, materials, movements and drawing practices. Feminist philosopher Karen Barad argues that, “representationalism ... separates the world into the ontologically disjunct domains of words and things...”1 Architectural representation and its production processes are sedimented with binary thinking such as male/female, inside/outside, subject/object,. Architectural drawing practices perform through a particular setofactionsthataresedimentedwithabstractthinking. Theyengagewith representationalism through distance and separation. Architectural drawings tend to be clean, pristine, made of fine lines that move forward with ease towards the production of a building. These drawings define territory, create bounded objects and are devoid of materiality. New LiDAR technologies produce drawings through recording dots of data. These cloud like drawings register all visible surfaces producing images/3D scans that are inclusive of everyday life: clothes, chairs, tables, rugs, books, flower pots. In this paper I diffract the architectural line with cloud point data and movement practices to entangle everyday life with the making of home. I aim to refigure how interiors are produced and homes are made.