The Grand Domestic Revolution

Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory cordially invites you to join us for the opening of the project exhibition 'The Grand Domestic Revolution - User's Manual'.

In October 2009 Casco initiated 'The Grand Domestic Revolution - User's Manual' (GDR) in response to an invitation from 'Utrecht Manifest: Biennial for Social Design' to develop a project that would question and challenge the very notion of social design. With the aim of re-articulating and exercising notions of the social, the public and the commons, and departing from the grounds of the domestic sphere, GDR evolved into a long-term research platform and residency exploring the urgent domestic concerns of today and the potential transformative ways to engage them. Inspired by the late nineteenth-century American "material feminist" movement which brought about what architectural historian Dolores Hayden later referred to as "the grand domestic revolution" by the communalising of kitchens, nurseries and  housing, GDR focuses on the question of what difference a changed domestic sphere could bring to towns, cities and society at large today. 

After two years of "living research" residencies, home productions, town meetings and affinity actions, GDR opens up in an extensive exhibition to share the resulting proposals and paradoxes for a grand domestic revolution today. Casco invites all those who have a stake in transforming the conditions and status of the domestic sphere to challenge current divisions between our private and public spaces and to build new forms of living and working in common. 

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