BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by A. Puigjaner Barbera DTSTART:20210420T140000 DTEND:20210420T144500 DTSTAMP:20260929T023829Z UID:2082a6ca31e37b3447c3da9fe4295b403ff511fe644d4b5c1641d9c0 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Anna Puigjaner Barbera\n14:00 – 14:45 – A. Puigjaner Barbe ra\nAssociate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University\, NY\, USA\n\nTowards the Diffuse House\n\nHistorically\, the idea of home h as mirrored a faithful image of society’s deeper social structures. Cons equently\, housing has often been used as an effective tool for the ideolo gical construction of power relations. Albeit traditionally thought of in the west as a protective apparatus against externalities\, by serving as a vehicle for the capitalist division of productive and reproductive labor\ , the archetype of the home has played a central role in the creation of g endered relationships within domestic and social spheres.\nThe apparent re fuge of the home is inseparable from the immense economical\, technologica l\, and political structures that produce it. In particular\, the technolo gical changes fostered during the industrial revolutions have transformed not only the way housing has been designed\, but the way it is seen and wh o it is meant for. Its development throughout the past two centuries has r einforced hetero-patriarchal asymmetries and increased the commodification of everyday life.\nToday\, due to the liquified structures and technologi es of late-capitalism\, the limits of the domestic sphere have blurred. In creasingly\, our houses connect to a vast and growing digital sphere. This invisible territory into which our homes and the lives we live in them ad vance has turned the entirety of the built environment into an endless dom estic landscape\, one defined less by buildings or public spaces and more by objects and technologies. With the design of these new domestic apparat uses\, notions of privacy and publicity\, as well as productive and reprod uctive labor are being dramatically redefined. Gradually\, the home has be come a diffuse entity\, one supported by different services and spaces tha t do not necessarily occur within the same bounded domain. The home of tod ay is where the domestic and the urban\, labor and leisure\, private and p ublic\, all converge into an enigmatic\, and problematic entanglement.\n\n \n\nShort bio:\nAnna Puigjaner is a PhD architect\, researcher and co-foun der of MAIO\, an architectural office based in Barcelona and New York that works on open spatial systems that permit theoretical positions materiali ze. Her research is focused on alternative domesticities able to redefine gender biased structures.\nShe is currently an Associate Professor of Prof essional Practice at the Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Pr eservation GSAPP at Columbia University. Formerly\, she taught at Royal Co llege of Arts\, London\, and at the Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB /ETSAV - UPC. \nMAIO’s work has been exhibited at MOMA\, New York\, MAK Center for Art and Architecture\, Los Angeles\, Royal Academy\, London\, Art Institute of Chicago and Storefront for Art and Architecture\, and pub lished in magazines such as Monocle\, Domus\, Architecture d’Aujourd’h ui\, A+U and Detail among others. Amongst their built projects stands out 110 Rooms – Housing Block in Barcelona\, Vallcarca Public Space System a nd Species of Spaces at MACBA.\nHer research work has been granted by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in 2018\, and awar ded with the Wheelwright Prize 2016\, Harvard GSD. LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/85027491038 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR