The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON: domestic sphere in the age of flexible working
Stevanovic, Tijana (2013) The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON: domestic sphere in the age of flexible working. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 17 (1). pp. 15-18.
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Taking inspiration from Dolores Hayden's book Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods and Cities, published in 1982, this travelling exhibition and its accompanying events aim to work outwards from, and augment, the main postulates of the material feminists' revolutionary designs for communities in the US in the nineteenth century, which Hayden analysed. The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON: the domestic sphere is still at the centre of the struggle, although we may think that we have not lived in a traditional family centred setting for a full century now. Consequently, women’s struggles are rendered obsolete. Women already deserted the home as a workplace in association with mass industrialisation, but the post-Fordist era enforced this trend. Through this liberation, in turn, the role of the domestic in working lives has changed, although the representation of both still holds an important place in designating social relations (albeit excluding some). For the curatorial team of The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON (henceforth GDR), the question remains: in which positions in the overall deinstitutionalised discourse of art is the domestic sphere to be mapped, and how, in the time of post-industrial, postclass, post-feminist and post-colonial social struggles? In which ways are today's societal and labour forms dependent on today's differentiated domestic sphere, and vice versa?
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