Description
Dwelling is perhaps the primordial invention of human existence in response to Nature’s unpredictability and adversity. Culture Studies have been responsible for a series of intersections in the research of certain issues such as “dwelling” which take on a transdisciplinary approach. This dissertation aims to think about what it means to live in Liquid Modernity, a concept introduced by the Polish sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman. This metaphor also serves as a conceptual framework for the analysis of the social, cultural and spatial changes reflected in dwellings since the beginning of Modernity, highlighted by a shift from a paradigm of stability to a paradigm of mobility. As the boundaries between public/private and interior/exterior are smoothing, the house is becoming an increasingly fluid, permeable and porous space. More than on the interior, this work seeks to reflect on the interiority of the dwelling. At first, concepts that were crucial during the research process are clarified and further analysed. In a second phase, these concepts are discussed based on three single-family houses built in exposed concrete. Concrete — ‘liquid stone’ — is particularly important in this work because it asserts itself as a ubiquitous medium of construction that physically and metaphysically reflects some issues inherent to (Liquid) Modernity.| Period | 29 Apr 2021 |
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| Degree of Recognition | Master |