Forlini, Francesca, 2022, Thesis, From within: Uncovering cultural domesticity PhD thesis, Royal College of Art.
Abstract or Description: | From Within explores the intersecting processes of construction of the home, social and individual identities through domestic practices inside post-war housing. In specific, it examines the design and occupation of domestic spaces as crucial moments for the consolidation of subjectivities, beliefs and ideologies manifested through daily actions that are influenced by normative cultural systems. From the study of these residential complexes’ interiors today, a discrepancy clearly exists between their current state and the original intentions of architects. Thus, what guides individual inhabitation choices? What This thesis’ methodology, based on Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory, clarifies the mechanisms of interpersonal transmission of tastes and behaviours that constitute enculturated practices that take place in the domestic realm. Feminist theory and criticism of the heteronormative and patriarchal foundations of Bourdieu’s theory will open to the representation and production of gender identities inside the home, along with the persistence of spatialized gender hierarchies within these spaces. By focusing on women’s lived experience, this research then looks at the consolidation of feminine domestic cultures and how they foster small-scale physical transformations of dwellings’ interiors through daily negotiations that define self-identity and interpersonal power relations. These dynamics are referred |
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Qualification Name: | PhD |
Subjects: | Architecture > K100 Architecture |
School or Centre: | School of Architecture |
Funders: | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Scholarship |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Architecture; housing; domesticity; women; interiors |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2022 15:29 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2022 15:29 |
URI: | https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5082 |
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