INTERVIEWS
The book “The season of home objects” is a collaboration with writers, academics, curators and designers. The interview series “A conversation with” hosted by Prisca Arosio discusses the themes of home, objects and lockdown with multiple professionals. Find here their thoughts on the topics, their view on the project and their lockdown experiences.
A conversation with Sam Gosling
Sam Gosling is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin. His research focuses on the psychology of physical space, how personality is expressed in everyday context, and on new methods for collecting data in the behavioral sciences.
A conversation with Paolo Boccagni
Paolo Boccagni is a Professor in Sociology (University of Trento). He is currently doing comparative research on the lived experience of home, with a particular focus on the temporalities and boundary-making of asylum seekers in reception facilities.
A conversation with Alaa Alsaraji
Alaa is a London-based visual artist, designer and creative facilitator. Throughout her various roles her work always seeks to emphasise the value of using creativity as a pedagogical process to address and explore larger issues such as identity, faith and race.
A conversation with Yuka Oyama
Yuka Oyama is a Japanese-German artist based in Berlin. Oyama’s artistic practice employs human body and worn objects as sculpture, jewellery, video, photography choreographic experimentations and performances.
A conversation with Greg Noble
Greg Noble is Professor of Cultural Research at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. His research interests are youth, ethnicity, class and gender; migration and multiculturalism; material culture and the home; cultural pedagogies; multicultural education.
A conversation with Paulina Yurman
Paulina Yurman is an industrial designer, researcher and lecturer in industrial design at Central Saint Martins, London. Her design research explore the ambivalence of designed artefacts and the associated behaviours these may incite.
A conversation with Flavio Martella (IT)
Flavio Martella is a PhD at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and he researches the expansion of the concept of domesticity into the urban (and vice versa). Since 2018 he is co-founder of the architectural studio m²ft architects.
A conversation with Friedemann Yi-Neumann
Friedemann Yi-Neumann is an anthropologist at the University of Göttingen. He works on forced migration and life in asylum reception from a perspective on things and home-making.
A conversation with Michela Bassanelli (IT)
Michela Bassanelli, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on domestic interiors, exhibition design, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in contemporary living.
A conversation with Anuradha Reddy
Anuradha Reddy is a post-doctoral fellow in Interaction Design at Malmö University, Sweden. Her research aims to understand if design research, as a part of maker/hacker communities, can contribute to a creative critique of the data society.
A conversation with Andrea Staid (IT)
Andrea Staid teaches Cultural and Visual Anthropology at Naba, comparative literature at Insubria University. He holds a Phd at the University of Granada and he is the author of the multiple books.
A conversation with Christopher K. Travis
Christopher K. Travis is a writer, publisher, theorist and the managing partner and lead residential designer of Sentient Architecture LLC, an architecture firm, and Truehome Design. Build in Colorado, USA. He is known for using psychological and therapeutic methods to inform the design of homes.
A conversation with Kim Barbour
Kim Barbour is a qualitative new media scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Media at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her research looks at online persona and the domestic use of social media.
A conversation with Lorenza Liandru (IT)
Lorenza Liandru is an art historian. She is the responsible for PR and communication at the Museo Diocesano Tridentino, in Trento, Italy. She is the curator of the Virtual museum ‘Museo della Quarantena’ (translated as Quarantine Museum).
A conversation with Andrew Bruno
Andrew Bruno is an architect in New York City. He works in the NYC Housing Authority and he is the creator of ‘One House Per Day’ project where he drew a different detached house for 365 days.
A conversation with Janine Combes
Janine Combes is a contemporary jeweller and researcher based in Tasmania, Australia. She focuses on objects left behind in abandoned human settlements and the meaning of these objects.
A conversation with Sophia Maalsen
Sophia Maalsen is senior lecturer at University of Sydney, Australia. Her reaserch focus is on how digital technologies mediate and reconfigure housing, the urban and the everyday.
A conversation with Ziggie Bruhn
Ziggie Bruhn is a Danish Born Artist and a yoga teacher. She also teaches drawing classes for kids in Copenhagen, Denmark.
A conversation with Keith Jacobs
Keith Jacobs is a Professor of Sociology at University of Tasmania, Australia, and his research is focused on housing policy.
A conversation with Corinna del Bianco
Corinna del Bianco is a researcher and curator of projects such as ‘Spontaneous living places’ and ‘Archipelago’. She is PhD and adjunct professor of Urban Design at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.