Seasonal Clothing: : Unlearning control and materiality by staging interventions in a Tiny House on Wheels as environmental learning pedagogies

• What if a window blind is no longer available immediately but has to begrown at home? Imagine, the kitchen floor is covered in a mix of seedsand soil and is sprinkled with water when needed. Every step through thekitchen is taken with utmost care until the grass is dense enough. Thenthe grass is cut for breakfast juice and the grassy carpet pulled out of thehouse for a thorough wash. A diverse set of householders engage in makingsense and making a mark by adding their craft through embroidering andcrocheting. Finally, the new window blind is installed. For how long do youthink it will last? The Holding Surplus House (HSH) research project has created a TinyHouse on Wheels as a mobile site for interventions that lets us explorealternative realities and environmental learning pedagogies with ourphysical bodies in a household. For the conference Learnings/Unlearningswe offer the HSH as an exhibit and a panel to reflect on the artistic interventionsthemed “Seasonal Clothing”. The series of interventions provokehouseholders, designers, and a more general public to unlearn control,predictability, and immediate availability when it comes to interior design,materiality and interactions in diverse households. The interventions help us generate a bodily connection to, experience ofand engagement with alternative practices when it comes to householdingwith resources. We draw on an embodied approach to enable participantsin our interventions to become able to un/learn and make sense of theirbodies as a source to reimagine the space of home. For this conferencewe focus on the values of interdependence and dynamic relations innon-formal encounters through sharing situated learnings from the“Seasonal clothing” experiments in exhibition contexts and beyond, as wellas inviting for new embodied learnings.

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