Harvard Design Magazine #41
Author: Jennifer Sigler, Leah Whitman-Salkin (eds.)
Publisher: Harvard
Language: English
Pages: 200
Size: 30.5 x 22 cm
Weight:
800 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 725274577118
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Product Description
Family Planning
No. 41
F/W 2015
As family configurations evolve and atomize, and “exceptions” become the norm—divorced, blended, solo, cooperative, childless, single-parent, widowed, queer, aging, migrant, transnational, foster, adoptive, multigenerational—the material construct of our homes, institutions, and cities asks to be reconsidered.
This issue of Harvard Design Magazine is based on the premise that we need to imagine new, different spaces for living together. It confronts the persistent myth of the nuclear family and reconsiders the architectures that contain and reproduce it. It examines how family realities influence, and are influenced by, the spaces we inhabit, and the patterns of our existence in cities, suburbs, and the countryside. Do these spaces correspond to the way we live, or want to live? Do they enable and support, or dictate and confine? And how do other social constructs—corporations, institutions, communities—mirror or redefine familial configurations?
“Family Planning” looks at spaces of home and belonging, and notions of property, ownership, and connection, addressing questions of what constitutes a family and the legal overtones of inclusion, citizenship, and basic rights. In doing so, it interrogates and reimagines the space of the family unit, presenting alternatives, past and future, for diverse family configurations to flourish in the built environment.
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
The Round Table
Jennifer Sigler
Artifacts
Soft Architecture
Eva Díaz
A Dream Realized, but for Another Time
Sarah Lynn Lopez
Diversity of Lifestyles, Diversity of Incomes
Susanne Schindler
Home Making: The Power of Ordinary Politics
Brent Pilkey
Home Staging
Mohsen Mostafavi
On Children’s Noise
David Huber
Picnic: Iranian Style
Faryar Javaherian
Scenes from an Other Marriage
James Voorhies
The Exploded Bunker
Fabrizio Gallanti
The Unwanted’s Guide to US Housing Policy
Ellen J. Pader
To Design Is to Plan and Organize
Robert Wiesenberger
Zoned Out: Buildings and Bodies
Lori Brown
Columns
A Theory of Everything
Claire Barliant
Half of Everything
Sam Jacob
Renotopia
McKenzie Wark
Ship Shape
Alex Kitnick
A Feminist Vision for Going Solo
Daphne Spain
Built Gendering
Saskia Sassen
Child Migrants at Home
Jacqueline Bhabha
China’s Disappearing Family
Ou Ning
Doing Family: At Home in Polymedia
Mirca Madianou
Households and Families: A Legal Mismatch
Katharine Silbaugh
Knife and Spork
Angie Keefer
Essays
From the Old Family—to the New
Christina E. Crawford
Post-Familial Communes in Germany
Niklas Maak
Breaking with Tradition
Christopher Herbert, Jennifer Molinsky
Building Stories: Unsettling Family in Mumbai
Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao
FAMILI: Proxy Paranoia or Technological Camaraderie
ÅYR
My Grandparents’ Shanghai Home: A Guided Tour
Jie Li
Not One of the Family: The Tight Spaces of Migrant Domestic Workers
Rachel Silvey, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Not-Family
Jeremy Till
Production/Reproduction: Housing beyond the Family
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara
Queer Communes: Living in Flux
Michael Bronski
TV Generations
Lynn Spigel
Wild City? The Migrant Settlements of Kampung Tower
Stephen Cairns
Insert
Album Beauty
Erik Kessels
Interviews
Destroying Family
Michael Hardt, Delia Duong Ba Wendel
Dispersing Intimacy
Mohsen Mostafavi, Bijoy Jain
Dragons, Poets, and the Real World
Martti Kalliala, Ursula K. Le Guin
Living on the Edge
Hilde Heynen, Dolores Hayden
The Is Mine
Lisa Haber-Thomson, Drucilla Cornell
Photo Essay
The Notion of Family
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Plus
Control Points
Daniel Rauchwerger, Megan Panzano
Orphan City
René Boer, Michiel van Iersel