De-alienating the home
What:
A takeover of AUAR's House BlockWho: The Good Thing + Gonzalo Herrero x AUARWhere: Clapton, Hackney, LondonWhen:
26th April - 2nd May 2021
Current global events have shown a need to increase our attention towards health and well-being, in particular in our living spaces. We need to rethink the environments that we inhabit every day, understanding how they shape our lives and ourselves. This modular prototype invites visitors to explore a more humane design approach for existing domestic spaces, understanding these as diffused and boundless. It explores the potential to expand domestic interiors to create spaces that improve people’s physical and mental well-being and strengthen community engagement.
Based on AUAR modular blocks, this prototype is designed by architect and curator Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, and well-being architecture practice The Good Thing founded by architect Pati Santos. Together they lead a Design Studio at Central Saint Martins focused on exploring alternative domestic models for modernist social housing schemes following ecological and well-being principles.
Talk: Thursday 29th of April 2020 / 18:30-19:30
Join us for a panel discussion, live on The Bartlett School of Architecture's YouTube channel, examining the connection between domesticity, well-being and ecology with Claire McAndrew, Senior Research Fellow in Public Engagement and Co-Director at Automated Architecture (AUAR) Labs, Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, architect and curator, Pati Santos, founder of The Good Thing, and Rosa Rogina, Head of Programming at the London Festival of Architecture.
Current global events have shown a need to increase our attention towards health and well-being, in particular in our living spaces. We need to rethink the environments that we inhabit every day, understanding how they shape our lives and ourselves.
As a response to and takeover of AUAR’s House Block project in Clapton, Hackney, Gonzalo Herrero Delicado and The Good Thing show a modular prototype that invites visitors to explore a more humane design approach for existing domestic spaces, understanding these as diffused and boundless.
Within this context, the panel discussion will explore the potential to expand domestic interiors to create spaces that improve people’s physical and mental well-being and strengthen social connections.
Biographies
Dr. Claire McAndrew is the Co-Director of Automated Architecture (AUAR) Labs & Ltd. and a Senior Research Fellow in Public Engagement at The Bartlett School of Architecture.
Gonzalo Herrero Delicado is an architect, independent curator and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins.
Pati Santos is an architect, founder of architectural practice The Good Thing and Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins.
Rosa Rogina is Head of Programming at London Festival of Architecture and Associate Lecturer at the University of East London.
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De-alienating the Home
The Good Thing + Gonzalo Herrero x AUAR
Collaborators:
AUAR Team
Douglas Haseler
Hugo Hale
Saamia Maakharia
Emily Benno
> Watch it at
Vimeo
