THE UN-TENDED CONSEQUENCES

SHELTER: Today, our homes are more comfortable than ever before, yet their sanctity as havens from the public sphere is at risk. The same technology that streamlines our lives also clandestinely tracks, records, and shares our actions with companies eager to convert our habits into sales.

Devices meant to deepen connections are also vehicles for market-driven algorithms to infiltrate our private lives, vying for our attention in a bid to monetize our interactions. Moreover, this technology offers a potentially damaging gateway to our children, challenging the very essence of our homes as shelters.

FOOD: The pressure and fatigue associated with juggling work outside of the home with family life have resulted in a growing dependency on quickly prepared processed foods contributing to numerous health issues.

Cherished family traditions and bonding over homemade meals have significantly diminished. Culinary traditions passed down through generations have mostly faded away and most young people are barely proficient in the kitchen today.

FAMILY: Family unity is fraying, the vibrant tapestry of traditions and intergenerational wisdom, quietly thinning.

With children often cared for outside the home, the invaluable role of family and community in their upbringing may be undervalued, potentially at great societal cost.

When home, family members often retreat into private digital realms that create isolation and subvert the deeply nurturing connections that define the essence of familial bonds.

WORK: Once a hub of entrepreneurship within a bustling cottage economy, the home now stands largely idle in economic terms, its residents employed by the external market economy born of the Industrial Revolution.

This shift also saw women journey from the private Domain of Care to impressive accomplishments in the public sphere. No longer able to care for children while working in their homes, the cost and stress of childcare outside of the home has become a new burden for many families.