What is a home without a house?

In this panel discussion we explore how the concept of home and domesticity is becoming disconnected from the traditional understanding of a house.

How has the meaning of home changed in today’s mobile society? What constitutes home for those who have had to forcedly abandon or voluntarily leave their houses? Are temporary structures an appropriate architectural response? And how is domesticity determined by temporality, sensory experience, personal affection, collective memory, and social networks?

Speakers:
Robert Mull – Head of the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton; curator of multiple shows on the Calais Jungle
Mike Seal – Reader in Critical Pedagogy, Newman University, Birmingham; editor of 'Understanding and Responding to Homeless Experiences, Identities and Cultures'
Helen Taylor – writer, researcher and lecturer on refugees and migration; author of 'Refugees and the Meaning of Home: Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London'
Victor Buchli (chair) – Professor of Material Culture, UCL; author of 'An Archaeology of the Immaterial'; editor of 'Home Cultures'