Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Grace Quah has produced a feminist film featuring a speculative housing estate where appliances become the architecture, reducing the amount of unpaid domestic labour women are required to carry out.
Quah’s Silvertown Plug-In project was developed during her studies on the Bartlett’s Unit 26 course, which is led by by Simon Kennedy and Gabby Shawcross and focuses on the potential for film to develop new forms of architectural practice.
The proposal for a residential architecture that fully automates the majority of household chores is an attempt to highlight the continuing gendered division of domestic labour.
“I knew I wanted to do a housing project for my final year and I became very interested in the gendered nature of domestic space, particularly its representation in film,” Quah told Dezeen.
“Spaces are not gender neutral. Gendered spaces are performative and women’s occupation of space can be very different to a man’s, so I wanted to explore this using filmic techniques and a time-based narrative.”
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