This will be a discussion of some front lines, from the historical barricade to the contemporary gentrification frontier. This session will ask how art's function might be to make life inhabitable whilst being implicated directly in the reorganisation of the urban space, intrinsic to managerial narratives of 'bettering', 'upgrading' and cultural transformation. To rehearse some questions around art and its relation to the social field I wonder what methods 'picturing' might take in relation to homes (as both dwelling and oikos).