Queering the Home as a Critical Spatial Practice

Queering the Home investigates the home as a normative spatial construct and as a site of socio-political negotiation.

Far from being a neutral container or backdrop of everyday life, the home has historically functioned as a powerful architectural device through which ideas of gender, kinship, sexuality, productivity, and care are organized, stabilized, and standardized.

Drawing on queer-feminist theory and connected to critical spatial practices, the seminar approaches queering as a method rather than an identity category. Queering is understood as a practice of unsettling heteronormative and patriarchal assumptions: questioning fixed functions, destabilizing binary spatial logics, and exposing the exclusions embedded in conventional housing typologies.

Speakers: Bernadette Krejs, Max Utech

Coordinators: M. Bassanelli, E. Garavaglia, A. Lapenna

Contacts: michela.bassanelli@polimi.it