DS 3.7

Using London and Beijing as our test beds, DS3.7 explores novel ideas of housing and poetics of habitation. We draw inspiration from the Smithson’s phrase ‘art of inhabitation’ and the Chinese philosophy of ‘poetics of habitat’. This embodies our comparative approach in search of new ideas that address increasingly shared global issues. Our work this year constitutes a radical re- imagining of the relationship between dwelling and nature. We ask how this relationship can reshaped in the age of Anthropocene, where human dominion over nature has led to catastrophic consequences for both ourselves and the natural world we are a part of.