Grand domestic revolution goes on

Published on the occasion of The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON, a series of activities that check in on a long-term 'living research' project titled User's Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution"--Inside cover.
Accompanied by 2 illustrated cards.

'The Grand Domestic Revolution (GDR)' is an ongoing ‘living research’ project initiated by Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht as a multi-faceted exploration of the domestic sphere to imagine new forms of living and working in common. GDR continues today – GOES ON! – evolving in different scales and extensions, taken up and transformed in different cities, sites and neighbourhoods by those who desire to carry on the GDR from their own home base or by those already engaged with it in their local languages and practices. This way, GDR suggests a different form of “travelling project” and mode of international collaboration.

Does the contemporary domestic sphere need change? If so, what forms can the “grand domestic revolution” of our time take? What kind of emancipatory forms of dwelling and social relations can we imagine in and against today’s society of control? Since October 2009, Casco has embarked on its first ever long-term collective research project, exploring the contemporary condition of the private home and different ways in which “living together” can be practiced in and around it.

‘The Grand Domestic Revolution—User’s Manual’ (GDR) investigates the domestic space and its (changing) use through a variety of methods and disciplines, traversing the fields of art, design, architecture, urban planning, activism and theory.