Thursday, February 23, 2012

RPG 303: Art and Diversity of Place - Prompt 11




How does race re-shape our collective understanding of the home?

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

RPG 303: Art and Diversity of Place - Prompt 10









Sufficient Self from andrea zittel on Vimeo.



Andrea Zittel's work reflects a contested relationship between the individual and home. How does her work illuminate the distance between societal aspiration and consumptive desire linked to the lived experience?

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

RPG 303: The Art and Diversity of Place - Prompt 8





What role does consumerism play in domestic identity?

Thursday, February 9, 2012

RPG 303: Art and Diversity of Place - Prompt 7



Compare and contrast the centrality of home ownership as it is expressed in west and east Winter Park.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

RPG 303: The Art and Diversity of Place - Prompt 6



"In speaking of poverty let us never forget that there is a distinction between this and pauperism. The former is an unavoidable evil, to which many are brought from necessity. . . It is the result, not of our faults, but of our misfortunes . . . Pauperism is the consequence of willful error, of shameful indolence, of vicious habits. It is a misery of human creation, the pernicious work of man, the lamentable consequence of bad principles and morals."




A Ludlow Tenement by Jacob Riis (1905)



 
"Housing conditions were evidence of every failing of character, the cause of every social problem, and the surest path to improvement. "Home improvement for the urban poor, like "home improvement" for the middle class itself, was considered the direct route to virtue; bad home environment were the inevitable road to despair." --Gwendolyn Wright (1981)




To what extend do perceptions of our home environment have an impact on individual and communal action?