DS 3.3

The contributions of the creative user to design discussions and the idea of a ‘questioning and incomplete’ approach is fundamental to the process driven methodology of this studio. The idea of ‘open work’ (Eco) enables personal interpretations and dialogues to establish the design proposals. Dialogical Cities, Adaptive Multi Use involve urban ideas of rebuilding, renewal, adaptability and flexibility concerning the position of public institutions and the ability to adapt as needs change. The technique of historiography is adopted to create new relationships between site, program and individual research. These design conversations where new readings and meanings are constantly shifting are formed through individual narratives and experiences. The Concierge Dwellings, Rethinking Habitation and Use are accomplished through engaging with latent transitionary and intermediary conditions especially in the ‘counter-spaces’ that occur in the voids and/or peripheries of the existing Museum of the Home, Shoreditch. The proposals are part-parasite-part-catalyst and serves to alter the function and meaning of the host institution through creating, destroying and/or appropriating. Through interventions that alter existing understandings of ‘museum’, the new narratives hosted by the Concierge Dwellings extend to the Adaptive Multi-Use Museum of People and Places. These post pandemic design proposals accommodate the retroactive past, site-specific present and speculative future.