casual, sudsy, social love at the tubs (2022).
The coin-operated laundromat is an unassuming presence in the city. It doesn’t proclaim its publicness loudly, but on closer study it is a rich container for everyday life and a crucial site of care. Casual, sudsy, social love at the tubs takes the laundromat as a point of departure in a design-research exploration on networks of extended domesticity in the post-pandemic world.
The proposal consists of a series of interventions that take on the language of the clothes line and clothing pole. The hope is that rather than looking at the canonical instances of public space, the laundromat might inform a new type of “publicness” that would resist the usual character of intensive development and the financialisation of the city.
In collaboration with Elise Limon and Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen. Supervised by Frida Escobedo and Karolina Czeczek.
The coin-operated laundromat is an unassuming presence in the city. It doesn’t proclaim its publicness loudly, but on closer study it is a rich container for everyday life and a crucial site of care. Casual, sudsy, social love at the tubs takes the laundromat as a point of departure in a design-research exploration on networks of extended domesticity in the post-pandemic world.
The proposal consists of a series of interventions that take on the language of the clothes line and clothing pole. The hope is that rather than looking at the canonical instances of public space, the laundromat might inform a new type of “publicness” that would resist the usual character of intensive development and the financialisation of the city.
In collaboration with Elise Limon and Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen. Supervised by Frida Escobedo and Karolina Czeczek.
