Gropius Evicted: Where does the Household Go? An investigation of the displacement of capitals in a foreclose´s process. A household budgeting system without economics. estudio SIC | Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas VIC Intervention at Gropius/Meyer/MvdR MasterHouse in Dessau, Germany. Householding/ Haushaltsmesse 2015 Curated by:
Regina Bittner and Elke Krasny
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With the collaboration of PaH Madrid ( Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca) Special thanks to Carolina Pulido and Rafael Ivan from PaHMadrid. Without the experiences of Marceline Rosero, Lamine Numke e Irene González we could not have made the Bodygraphys and the essence of Gropius Evicted Project. Madrid, Dessau June 2015 Organized by: Supported by:
EVICTED DOMESTICITIES Households in transition
HOUSEHOLDING TOPOLOGIES Household is a coincident system
URBAN BODYGRAPHIES
Reconfiguration of capitals in a foreclose process
If in the XIXth century the first manuals of household management appeared, in the begining of the XXth century they became more specific advocating a new type of housekeeping as a practical response to scientific discoveries and technological and technical advances: the scientific domestic management or Household engineering. In mid-XXth century it started talking about economic houselholds. Today the economy as their own and individual is no longer such. Financial systems no longer allow us to control our economy, becoming dependent on other actors, places and nodes. Householding manuals are now Financial Manuals, where the priority aims an addressed answer to mortgages, loans, credits…rather than the house, food, health, etc .... But what household books or contemporary manuals do not explain are all those capitals that are part of our deployment in our practices is this domestic, urban or all at once. So, where are the other capitals in this credit society? Where is all -besides the economy- in the household budget? What is mortgaged when we have a mortgage on our house? What happens when we do not pay the mortgage? What other capitals are deployed? Our aim is to decolonice the household budget. A Householding budget without economics. Our research develops a reconfiguration of many other capitals: health, symbolic, cares, spacetime, ecological, social and cultural development in a eviction process. There is no learning without reconfiguration. And learning is not individual, it concerns all of us as a society. Our intervention wants to leave behind national borders in order to –collectively- discuss this matter. Our intervention will only visibilize a part of the situated and located research we are currently developing. “Gropius Evicted” is one of a series of evictions in the Master´s Houses. There was a political eviction in Gropius House by the NSDA Party in 1932 and knock over in 1945. In 1956 a detached house with a gable roof was built on the foundations. Also in the 2011 when the Emmer house was knocked over -as a symbolic and aesthetic eviction- replacing a lost ancient capital from the Bauhaus institution. In 2014 a new master house appears as a simulation of the original. The detached house was evicted again. During this process, lasting almost a century, the basement of the Gropius house was the apartment of the caretaker of the Master House Complex. This apartment is the eight Master House, always invisible. The house of the family that represent the other capitals always invisible in a houselholding budgeting. Our intervention display the collective financial-economic eviction which happens in Madrid daily related to global economic policies. The world is a recursive system of successive evictions at all levels.
Evicted Domesticities - Reconfigured Situations in the Eviction Process
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EVICTED DOMESTICITIES Households in transition
Outdoor domesticity resulting from an eviction process. Š Andres Kudacki | AP
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Evicted Domesticities: H o u s e h o l d s i n Tr a n s i t i o n .
Householding is the way we lead our lives at home. That means economy, social relations, objects, instruments and appliances that enable the maintenance of everyday life. Bauhaus develop a system to desing a kind of life through the design of new domestic technologies for furnace, heating and lighting system, with the support of the industry specialized in refrigerators, stoves and washing machines. New hygienic practices performed household tasks always for women. Bauhaus wanted to transform society without asking themselfs in which social way. Household was a duality of roles: ideally men were producing in public out of home while women were reproducing in private inside home. But what happens when the capital-resource house as a space to accommodate domestic activity disappears? Where the household goes? Gropius, Meyer and Mies van der Rohe in the MasterHouse and the Bauhaus Institution was “politically evicted� in 1932 by the NSD party. Until today´s process, and because of that event, Bauhaus had to continually reconfigure its economic, social, symbolic and cultural capital to survive. .
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Supporting Bodies
The pre-evicted home is temporarily transformed into a public gathering space. They consist of ‘bodies’: evicted family members, relatives, activists, pets and other support figures. Strangers in this public house suddenly establish comraderie as they support the emotional waiting for the time of eviction. The house is an indoor demonstatrion.
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Resistance Home
For the short duration of the eviction ‘war’, the house is seen as a fort, and its contents treated as defence mechanisms. Domestic appliances and furniture are used to barricade the main door from police entry. This buys the occupants more time to pack their things, and give a temporary comfort, security and sense of control over their situation. The fridge turns into a political object of resistance.
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Makeshift Vessels
Amidst the chaos of eviction, occupants must make do by using furniture (such as tables, cupboards or mattresses) as vehicles to transport their belongings out of the home. Here, the objects themselves become ephemeral homes for other objects. What was once static objects now implies dynamic, flexible spaces and platforms for makeshift habitation.
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Courtyard Home
The enclosed space of a residential courtyard creates an ambiguous interior-exterior condition for evicted people and their belongings. Its inward-looking structure creates an awareness of eviction amongst all the neighbours. What does this condition mean for an architecture of eviction?
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Furniture and home moving during an eviction process. Š Jaime Alekos | Periodismo Humano
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Packed domesticity resulting from an eviction process. Š Jaime Alekos | Periodismo Humano
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P a s s a g e o f Tr a n s i t i o n
Due to the short time frame for the home to be cleared post-eviction, belongings are moved into the common corridor and stacked along one side of the wall. Private items are suddenly visible to all the neighbours, who are confronted by them as they make their way to their own apartments. It’s an emergency moving home.
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Left Behind
The vacated apartment post-eviction is filled with all the items and memories that the evicted persons could not take with them. This includes bulky furniture, appliances like fridges and ovens, less-important articles, trash and forgotten valuables.
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Mobile Home
Upon eviction, the role of the vehicle takes on the role of the surrogate home, extending far beyond its intended function of travel. Domestic programs like sleeping, storage, dining, working and playing are now compressed into one compact space, often expanding temporarily into any free space in the vicinity of the car when it is parked.
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Elevator
The elevator becomes a vertical connector between the evicted home’s corridor and the ground floor for belongings and furniture to exit the building. Like evictions, the elevator also has a ‘waiting’ time: this amplifies the evicted person’s nerves and fears of their situation in their imagination.
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Lobby Home
The lobby is typically a space of ‘first impressions’; the first encounter any visitor has with a residential building. However during eviction it suddenly becomes a chaotic, domestic, dramatic landscape of displacement. Public and private are blurred together, and the untimely visitor is confronted with confusion: who is the intruder in the situation?
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Hyperfamily
Many evicted persons move in with their relatives, effectively expanding the shared home by double or even triple the occupants within the same number of square metres. This situation unfortunately does not extend to evicted immigrants, who have no relocation alternatives and are on their own.
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Madrid has a fifth invisible tower built from evicted domesticities
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Hyper-model tower of evicted domesticities 01
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Hyper-model tower of evicted domesticities 02
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Householding topologies
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HOUSEHOLDING TOPOLOGIES Household is a coincident system
Diagram of householding topologies
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H o u s e h o l d i n g To p o l o g i e s : Household is a coincident system
What is interesting is to think the household as part of a complex ecosystem where distant situations have an inmediate impact on our bodies or a global condition that affect our domestic practices and this is interesting al least for two reasons. First, Householding as a micro-level social process is a system without distance and scale; is collective and with many different capitals besides the economic. Secondly household is a coincident system. The concept of a coincident system shows the simultaneously condition of the neighbourhoodness and the difference: without this fact it is imposible to understand how contemporary societies emerge. If we want to trace how the process of the household construction is setting up nowadays in a coincident system, we need other tools to visibilice it. Connecting the personal and the social, a different analysis of the relationships between the public sphere and the domestic space is needed. Our architecture looks for an emergent new collective realm based on networks, opening and distributing domestic practices within the city. That is manifest in a case like Madrid evictions issue, because is questioning the whole operating mode. What if homes are not designed only from an economic point of view? Market design our homes. Private investment funds decide from thousands of miles away which life you shoud wear and how configure it. This changes everything. The approach to household question collective and self-gobernance.
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Stop Desahucios demonstratio during an eviction. Š Javier Bauluz | Periodismo Humano
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Fridge as a resistance object © Andrés Kudacki | AP
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Digital cartography of Madrid`s evictions during 2009 - 2014. VIC in collaboration with PAHMadrid
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Householding topologies model
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Urban bodygraphies
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URBAN BODYGRAPHIES Reconfiguration of capitals in a foreclose process
Gropius Evicted
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Urban Bodygraphies: Reconfiguration of capitals in a foreclosure process. We want to display a matter of utmost importance. The inability to develop a household in the XXI century. In Madrid more houses sufferes evictions than the ones built. How is it possible to have citizens without the access to housing and thousands of empty houses at the same time?. What role does the architect assume in this dilemma? Our collaboration with PAH-Madrid as a citizen urban extitutional process reveils this urban reconfiguration, at all levels, based on access to household. Where is the household when the house no longer exists? How the domestic capital is reconfigured under this absence? How it becomes an individual problem in a public and collective matter? How do you go from and individual or family household system to an outdoor household? And with all these new challenges, how could we design new housing that incorpores other capitals households? Marceline, Lamine and Irene are evicted citizens. What does it mean in terms of resources, capitals and affects of an individual-collective domestication process in the city? How this absence of a house based resource configured their non economic capitals during their personal foreclosure process.
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Umzug Arndt moving in Dessau, 1933
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Gropius House, 1927 - 1933 Knocked over 1945
Emmer House, 1956 - 2000 Knocked over 2011
Gropius Masterhouse Replica, 2014
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The basement remains originally during all the several Bauhaus evictions
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M A RCE L IN E Marceline Rosero Ecuador Spain 48 years old Family unit: 5 before evition / 4 after eviction
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Marceline Rosero. Š L. Sevillano
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Reconfiguration of economical capitals
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Reconfiguration of non-economical capitals
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L A M IN E Lamine Numke Mali Spain 38 years old Family unit: 4 members
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Lamine Numke. © Sergio García
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Reconfiguration of economical capitals
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Reconfiguration of non-economical capitals
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IRENE Irene Gonzรกlez Spain 48 years old Family unit: 5 before eviction / 4 after eviction
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Irene González. © Sergio García
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Reconfiguration of economical capitals
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Reconfiguration of non-economical capitals
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MARCELINE
Marceline’s urban practices 2008-2015
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LAMINE
Lamines’s urban practices 2009-2015
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IRENE
Irenes’s urban practices 2006-2015
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Urban Bodygraphies
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