How are the notions of home constructed by the traveller in the current conditions of Supermodernity?
Drawing upon a collection of records gathered through quantitative and qualitative research, the project investigates the attributes in play in the construction of the notions of home. Informed by Augé’s definition of the anthropological place, defined as relational, historical, and concerned with identity, combined with autoencoder and generative models used within machine learning to redefine the design process, this body of work analyses and decodes the functional and expressive qualities of the concepts of home.
The research and its findings are presented in the form of an exhaustive map that illustrates the latent connections between theoretical resources as well as a dynamic video, inviting the observer to reflect upon their relationship with the concepts of home by highlighting its everchanging nature.
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Claudia Chiavazza is an Italian research-led practitioner currently based in London. After completing her bachelor’s in Design and Visual Communication at the Polytechnic of Turin, she pursued a master’s in Graphic Design at Kingston University. Her practice focuses on the dialogue between graphic medias and design thinking as tools of investigation in digital and analogical formats. She is a visual communicator and researcher with a decentralised position informed by a diverse range of theories and fields of study. Thanks to her expertise, she aims to undertake alternative forms of design-actions to reflect and question social, political, and cultural constructs within the realm of cultural, educational, and design-oriented organisations.
“[…] We can conclude that in the world of supermodernity people are always, and never, at home.” (Augé, M. Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. 1992. p. 109)