Home at Arsenale addresses the topics of home and dwelling as current critical social and environmental issues. Definitions of home have been continuously questioned and challenged within diverse historical and cultural settings. Today's information-driven society is characterized by accentuated and proliferated mobility, ranging from the seeking of permanent relocation to various commuting scenarios. Accordingly, the notion of home requires readdressing. What defines home today, when so many can be almost anywhere and connected to anything, anytime? Despite this growing virtual connectivity the concept of home might still need a tangible spatial or social reality. Our personal experience with moving home provoked the initial question: Is home where the library is, or is the library where home is?
Home at Arsenale proposes the concept of home as a public curated library that opens up a platform for multiple responses on the topics of home and dwelling within the current spatial and social conditions. Challenging the private/public dichotomy within the dwelling domain the project suggests a transformation of private home into possible temporary-public home environment.
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