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User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic
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User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution is Casco’s long term
‘living research’ project developed in
partnership with Utrecht Manifest:
Biennial for Social Design. The project explores the potential of the domestic sphere as a locus for creating
‘the commons’, a self-organised
form of sharing both material and
immaterial resources, by means of
artistic, organisational and spatial
design operations.
The project takes its title from a
book by architectural historian Dolores Hayden on the late 19th century
material feminist design movement
in the United States that communalised the spaces of isolated domestic
work by building public kitchens,
communal apartments, cooperative
childcare facilities, organising their
own working and living cooperatives
and were involved with town planning. GDR recalls this multi-faceted
social movement, and by means of
action research, artistic investigation, theory and design/architectural practice, searches for other
forms of living that subvert capitalist
organisations of society. (E-Flux)