Master Studio III 2022
KU-Leuven
Faculty of Architecture Sint-Lucas Brussels

(Post)Pandemic CityLand
Living in Transition

Urban Cultures
Anuschka Kutz

Living in Transition is a research based project, which speculates on the (post)pandemic cityland starting from the home, using feminist theories to rethink ways of living together based on increasing challenges within the domestic sphere due to Covid-19. The structural division of labour (“reproduction”) and work (“production”) is taken as a crucial starting point for an exploration of a possible concept of home, according activities and rhythms, objects, spatial and social configurations, and following values and memories. Through interviews, there have been observed current housing situations of students in their twenties, mainly from Germany, and in particular questioned the above-mentioned relationship between the notion of home, housework and everyday life. These interviews helped to explore individual notions of home and to develop a strategy for a possible typology of student housing for a location in Berlin Moabit. Based on various case studies of typologies of collective housing and a site study of the chosen area in Berlin Moabit, the different functions of (student) housing will be distributed within a street and not limited to a single building. The project is driven by an interest in various boundaries between the private, the collective and the public as well as possibilities of mutual care through re-valuing reproduction and community.