My cherished garment
“Open” and “Close” Homes
Estación terminal
Till Death Do Us Part
Everything in place
Pensar el habitar urbano
Long Live my Objects: Silent Practices to Avoid Obsolescence
The Bright Side of Coronavirus. Reinventing home during quarantine
The Countless Lives of Newspapers and the Right to Repurpose
For the past decade, the environmental agenda has been unavoidable for social actors such as governments, NGOs, companies, and individuals. The climate crisis has also reached the field of design, demanding production and disposal processes that do not take a toll on the planet. This article focuses on the overlooked strategy of repurposing, through which everyday consumers transform and subvert simple objects, providing them with novel functions and a new lifespan. To understand how certain elements of design may affect consumers’ willingness to reinvent things, we take newspapers as a case study, giving their plasticity and their many diverse and unexpected functions. Throughout the analysis, a range of physical and social features are singled out, offering novel paths to sustainable design and reflecting on how the industry may prepare objects in advance to be reconfigured at the hands of their users.
La pérennisation du quotidien: ethnographie visuelle et matérielle des intérieurs domestiques d’une rue de Paris
Este artículo describe el trabajo realizado en el marco de una residencia en la galería de arte The Window en Paris. El proyecto tenía como objetivo explorar en la utilización de soportes sensoriales en una investigación antropológica, así como las principales problemáticas ligadas a este tipo de trabajo. Específicamente utilizamos fotografías, objetos y la instalación como herramientas no sólo para pensar y acercarse a un espacio etnográfico, sino también para construir un discurso sobre él.
