thesis
Every Now a Home — Translocal Production of Ephemeral Homes in Thirdnesses
2023
Master’s Thesis
Recipient of Best Thesis Award
Chao’s thesis for his master studies at Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven, attempts to understand what is considered a home for people with mixed backgrounds, how do these conditions come about, and what outlook can be anticipated for the increasingly hybridised and mobilised society that we live in today.
Chao uses the paper to examine his personal entanglement of Taiwanese-Chinese and Chinese-Saudi binaries, and employs the concept of “thirdness” as a tool to dissect their underlying conditions. Chao further inspects the production of home through four elements that he found to be instrumental: rituals, people, objects and places. Each element is dedicated a chapter, with numerous references to documentary and feature films, reflecting the crucial role that digital communication media plays in facilitating the movement of people and information. The paper concludes that our ephemeral and visceral feeling found through our home-making practices, are in fact, the manifestation of home itself.
For a physical copy, please contact Limestone Books. It is printed with the most usual A4 paper and printer, stamped and tied into a paper folder with emotionless labour (but still nice).
