Rē/domesticity

Rē/domesticity interrogates the architectures and systems through which private life is constructed, governed, and contested. From housing models decoupled from property speculation to interiors that preserve the residue of unfinished narratives, this inquiry examines dwelling as an active practice of adaptability, solidarity, and mutual care. It historicizes and critiques the entanglements of ownership, displacement, and domestic ritual, foregrounding how spatial forms encode ideology and reproduce inequality. Rē/domesticity advances speculative propositions that challenge normative assumptions of permanence, privacy, and belonging—positioning the domestic realm as a terrain for experimental reconfiguration and political imagination.A design experiment exploring what housing might become if it were unlinked from ownership, land markets, and permanence. It imagines a prototype neighborhood where dwellings are movable, shareable, and modular, but socially grounded and architecturally rich.

Rē/forum welcomes proposals, essays, and collaborations that explore speculative domesticities. If you are interested in contributing work or ideas to this inquiry, we’d love to hear from you.

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Selected Projects

Not for Sale

A prototype neighborhood unlinked from land markets and ownership.

Type: Prototype Housing Block + Speculative Spatial Framework

Mediums: Modular units, floorplan experiments, land-free site diagrams, tenure models, visual policy artifacts

Scale: Urban block / adaptable micro-neighborhood

Site: Fictional near-future city / housing crisis context

Themes: Housing, land, mobility, care, adaptability, property, design justice

Status: Studio project/under development

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11b ( unwritten)

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11a
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Schenck

A sound and spatial installation inhabiting the unfinished studio of a late conductor, exploring how domestic interiors hold memory, absence, and the echoes of unfinished work.

Type: Sound + Spatial Installation

Mediums: Reconstructed studio space, archival ephemera (real and fictional), multi-channel audio, ambient lighting, projection, absence

Duration/Scale: Variable; single-room environment (approx. 6m x 6m)

Site: Non-site-specific (adaptable to museum, gallery, or black-box setting)

Themes: Legacy, interruption, memory, incompletion, authorship, time, loss, ephermal

Status: Studio project/under development

Future themes.

What if homes were designed to unbuild themselves over time as a ritual of collective departure?

How might care infrastructures be shared across households and generations?

What new forms of belonging and identity emerge when permanence and ownership dissolve?

How could more-than-human inhabitants be acknowledged as part of domestic life?

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