“Sweet Homely Parliaments”. Andrés Jaque.

The domestic and public arenas have been considered, and projected, as independent areas. The home, in shared rhetoric, has been constructed as a depoliticised space of disconnection, whereas public space is seen as that of neutrality and disaffection. The Oficina de Innovación Política (Office of Political Innovation) has carried out a wide-ranging ethnography of the domestic arena which enables daily forms of organisation to be rearticulated as spaces where the ‘public’ is constructed in its enmeshing with the affective networks we recognise as ‘domestic’. In these, the domestic arena can be recognised as the setting where forms of citizenship are enabled that bind humans into shared disputes.

This was the theme of a series of architectural and urbanistic projects by the Office such as TUPPER HOMES, the Fray Foam Home project (by invitation from Kazuyo Sejima at the Venice Biennale), IKEA DISOBEDIENTS (curated by Arianda Cantis) and SWEET PARLIAMENT HOME (built in Gwangju and commissioned by Ai Weiwei).

Andrés Jaque (1971, ETSAM, Tessenow Stipendiat 1997) directs the Andrés Jaque Arquitectos office and associated platform for thought Oficina de Innovación Política, which are committed to the exploration of the political dimension of architecture and the role it can play in the social institutionalisation of everyday experience.

( http://oficinadeinnovacionpolitica.blogspot.com/ )
( http://andresjaque.net/wordpress/ )