UR2019
Single Person Dwelling: Well-Being Through Productive Loneliness Focus Visualizing and Communicating Unit Assistant Aditi Anand Kumar
Faculty of Planning UR2019 Spring 2021
3 rd year Charan V Daksh Tak Dhanvi Shah Dhriti V Jagasheth Ketki Nandanwar Khushi Patel Parthvi Darji Soha Gandhi Vikramaditya Karnawat
Katsushi Goto Demographic Research Journal’s issue, Living Alone: One-person household in Asia (2015), addresses one-person households as the fastest growing living situation in the world, especially in Asia. The current social welfare system and institutions not only fall short of supporting one-person households, but the distribution and utilization of resources are known to be limited to and facilitated for an ideal family household. Within this studio, we rethought housing outside of the ideal family household and questioned spatiality and materiality associated with the state of well-being, especially single person dwelling as a primary situation. During COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lock-down, we have experienced being alone in our own home/room while connected with friends and families online. With this recent experience as a starting point, participants documented her/his own space and objects to analyze and articulate relationships with her/him. Further within the studio, we addressed how a single person dwelling confirms its normality and well-being. Sitting at the threshold of communal and private, or simultaneously confining and liberating, the single person dwelling is purposed as both: for isolation and for production, shifting between these two states of being.
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