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Sweet Parliament Home

A research prototype for a new model of shared homes as politically activated space by Andrés Jaque Architects.

Domesticity in Seoul is no longer something that happens in a single place, the house, but something that is constructed by connecting different spaces spread out within the city. Home is not spatially fixed, unitary and consistent, but discontinuous, fragmented and constantly changing.

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Seoul is the strategy to segregate social realities to make daily life un-political. But every depoliticising strategy gets its response. A number of urban home fragments act as parliamentary spaces where diversity meets and is confronted. These are the fragments the project takes into account and prototypes. Discussion can happen in a warm space based on affection. This is the proposal: to bring politics and conflict into ordinary life.

Sweet Parliament Home is a research and prototype-making project by Andrés Jaque Architects, for the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011.

Homes tend to be thought of like places where conflict, diversity and collective are left behind to find familiarity and un-political calm. But a number of daily evidences could be seen as an opportunity to think domestic interiors as places where we get to meet social networks (both online and offline), to manage our associations and to take part in discussion arenas. Shared homes are parliaments in which we get to share our living, get connected and encounter otherness. Homes are material and non-material conglomerates of problematic limits.

Sweet Parliament Home is the making of a politically activated home. It is a result of a long run research on domestic interiors as political arenas run for 5 years now by the office Andrés Jaque Architects. A home in which domesticity is the living with the unfamiliar, and daily life is made of activism, controversies and institutional discussion. It is the making of public homey space. Four rooms, available to be used by specialized groups, converge into a common space. The common space works as a calculation device, in which differences between the groups get explicit by confrontation. But confrontation happens around a loved garden, providing the disputes with an affective constitution. Urbanism has been formally practice in the hierarchy of scales. When there are opportunities to both describe and project it as foam of engaged domesticities in which the collective is selectively appointed.

Sweet Parliament Home is the making of a politically activated home.

A project by Andrés Jaque Architects for the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011, directed by Ai Weiwei and Seung H. Sang
Curators: Anthony Fontenot and Minsuk Cho
Design Team: Dagmar Stéeova (coordinator), Álvaro Carrillo, Roberto González, Jorge López Conde, Kristian Ly Serena, Silvia Rodríguez
Research Team: Álvaro Carrillo,Choi Hun-In, Paula Currás, Kim Da-Hyun,Lim Goh-Woon, Gu Min Ju, Jung Ji-Eun, Kim Doo-Ee, Eugenio Fernández, Déborah López, Monstse Mont, Ana Olmedo, Eugenio Fernández, Eduardo Tazón and Enrique Ventosa.

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Sweet Parliament Home

A research prototype for a new model of shared homes as politically activated space by Andrés Jaque Architects.

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