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Abstract

Emergent domesticities have generated new forms of urban life that have dissolved the historical duality between the home and the city. Last century's gender revolution in Western societies, together with contemporary technologies, has affected how people organise their daily lives. Everyday time has replaced typological space, blurring the lines between reproductive and productive activities and consequently affecting private and public spaces and how we live together. Pre- modern dwellings consisted of spatial spaces in which a few pieces of furniture were used to carry out everyday activities and were replaced in 18th-century bourgeois culture by spatial devices organised into 'room.' Defined typologically according to modern concepts such as intimacy, domesticity and privacy, as opposed to the public sphere, room has now become a political tool to challenge the status quo. This article focuses on a renewed understanding of the kitchen as the appropriate element to showcase emerging ways of life related to architecture, gender, and the city, which coexist with the prevailing model of capitalism. The text aims to highlight the shift from a model based on relationships of social reproduction to a (counter-)model relying on caring and collective interactions that can contribute to the unfinished process of gender equality and social justice.

Publication Date

1-29-2025

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Submitted Date

2024-03-30

Accepted Date

2024-11-12

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Authors' Bio

Serafina Amoroso
serafina.amoroso@urjc.es
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6775-2069

Serafina Amoroso is an architect (Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2001). She obtained PhD in Architectural and Urban Design (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 2006), MA in Advanced Architectural Design (ETSAM, Madrid, 2012), and MA in Applied Research in Feminist, Gender and Citizenship Studies (Jaume I University, Castellón de la Plana, 2016). In 2014, she was selected to participate in the Visiting Teacher's Programme of the Architectural Association in London. She worked from 2007 until 2019 as an adjunct professor in Architectural Design at the School of Architecture of Florence. She is currently working as a lecturer in architectural design at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain). In 2017, she co-organised in Florence the international congress, MORE: Expanding Architecture From a Gender-based Perspective; she has also participated in different international conferences and publications on Gender and Architecture, such as Asparkía. Investigació Feminista and ArquitectAs. Her personal and academic interests mainly focus on gender perspectives and their relationship with space and education.

Atxu Amann Alcocer
atxu.amann@upm.es
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3868-7878

Atxu Amann Alcocer obtained PhD in Architecture from the Madrid Higher Technical School of Architecture (ETSAM) in Spain and a European Urban Planning Technician from the Centre for Urban Studies for Public Administrations. After graduating in 1987, she joined forces with Andrés Cánovas and Nicolás Maruri to form the architecture studio Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectos, which to date has won over a hundred awards and recognitions for its work, mostly obtained in architectural competitions, exhibited all over the world, and published in national and international journals. For more than twenty years, she has combined her professional work with her teaching activity at the university, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Her research on housing started from her doctoral thesis, offering a genealogy of the domestic space and establishing links between ways of thinking, ways of life and housing, specifically focusing on the fundamental changes that have occurred in the Western world in the last century, that is, the information revolution and above all, their links to women and no-human groups.

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