Calling Home: Explorations on Domestic Change in Italy

Calling Home is a project on housing change in Italy and on the ways Italian society shapes its domestic spaces. It mostly focuses on the housing stock that was built during the decades of dramatic urban transformation that followed WWII, when many Italians achieved the status of homeowners. The project consists in a series of 20 live video-interviews in which the interviewees are connected from their homes and are asked to talk about the spaces around them and their past and present experience of the building. Each interview covers a few recurrent topics related to house arrangements, accommodation and tenure, daily life experiences and the personal and collective memories attached to the place. The sample of interviewees represents a plurality of living situations from several Italian regions and addresses from a spatial perspective the social transformations underway. Calling Home has contributed to the section Weekend Specials of Monditalia at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, from September to November 2014.