Matilde Vaghi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, USA. 

She wrote an essay called “A Psychological view” for the book “The season of home objects”. During the interview she gives an insights of her essay,  her view on Oggetti Socievoli Project and her experience during lockdown.

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A conversation with Matilde Vaghi

Bianca Stoppani is an art researcher based in London, United Kingdom.

Bianca wrote an analytical text called “For now” for the book “The season of home objects”. During the interview they explain their text approach in relation to the Social Objects project, the meaning of the text title and their experience during the lockdown months in London.

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A conversation with Bianca Stoppani

Lara Debie is professionally certified coach based in Vancouver, Canada.

Lara wrote a short text called “A letter of reflection” for the book “The season of home objects”. During the interview she talks why she wrote this letter in relation to the Social Objects project and the how she went through the lockdown experience with her clients.

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A conversation with Lara Debie

Oggetti Socievoli presents
A conversation with Michela Bassanelli
Hosted by Prisca Arosio

A discussion about home, objects and sociable objects during lockdown.
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Michela and Prisca discuss the book “Covid Home: Luoghi e modi dell’abitare, dalla pandemia in poi” curated by Michela Bassanelli published in March 2020 by LetteraVentidue. Michela also talks about her own research which looks at ‘the housing threshold’ meant as corridors, entrances,ground floors, shared terraces etc. The underlying questions are what was the role of these spaces during lockdown experiences, how we could repurpose them for new needs, such as remote working, and what could be their new role in today's society. Find her article here ‘Lavoro immateriale e pandemia. Dalla worksphere all'Ho-Wo in-between’. During the interview Michela mentions the books: Augé, Marc, Estia e Hermes, “Domus”, n. 900, 2007. ‘Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics’ by Paul Preciado, ​​'Vivere, lavorare nelle piattaforme territoriali' by Aldo Bonomi.
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Michela Bassanelli, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on domestic interiors, exhibition design, and practices of disseminating collective memory through a multidisciplinary theoretical approach. Recently, she has been working on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on changes in contemporary living. Among her publications: Storie di case oltre la casa (2022); Covid Home: Luoghi e modi dell’abitare, dalla pandemia in poi (2020).

A conversation with Michela Bassanelli (IT)

Oggetti Socievoli presents
A conversation with Friedemann Yi-Neumann
Hosted by Prisca Arosio

A discussion about home, objects and sociable objects during lockdown.
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Friedemann and Prisca discuss the research project “On the materiality of (forced) migration" which was a collaboration between the university of Göttingen, the Museum Friedland and and the exhibition agency "Die Exponauten" (https://materialitaet-migration.de/en/). Friedemann then talks about his article in which he analysed objects and migration “From biographies to biographical horizons: on life courses and things in forced migrations”, the article in part of the book “Material Culture and (Forced) Migration” published in February 2022 by UCL Press.
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Friedemann Yi-Neumann is an anthropologist at the University of Göttingen. He works on forced migration and life in asylum reception from a perspective on things and home-making. His focus areas are material culture, forced migration and (post-)migration, asylum reception, dispossessions, homes, urban anthropology and curatorial engagements. Material Culture and (Forced) Migration project’ website: https://materialitaet-migration.de/en/

A conversation with Friedemann Yi-Neumann

Oggetti Socievoli presents
A conversation with 
Hosted by Prisca Arosio

A discussion about home, objects and sociable objects during lockdown.
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Flavio and Prisca discuss the research project ‘Domenic Boundaries’ which looks at how the house is becoming more public and, vice versa, how the city is getting domesticated. Flavio explains why these socio-economic phenomenons are happening, what are the current influences on cities and houses and how the pandemic played a role in speeding up many of these processes. Find here his article “Public house. The city folds into the space of the home”.
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Flavio Martella holds a master’s degree in architecture and engineering from the Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, and is a doctoral candidate in architecture at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid where he researches the expansion of the concept of domesticity into the urban (and vice versa). He has been a researcher at West Virginia University for the conceptualisation and development of an experimental prototype of self-sufficient housing, first built in Los Angeles and then exhibited at the Tellus Museum in Cartersville. As an architect he worked in different practices in The Netherlands, Italy and Spain, where he participated in the development of numerous relevant projects, exhibitions, and research projects presented at the Biennials of Rotterdam, Seoul, Orleans and the Tabacalera in Madrid.

He is a professor at the Master in Architectural Communication at UPM, and has been invited as guest lecturer in the Master in Collective Housing at UPM and ETH. Since 2018 he is co-founder of m²ft architects, where he develops projects, exhibitions and research projects aware of the contemporary dissolution of dualities, trying to establish new possible connections with architecture and other disciplines. His projects have been awarded and published in different platforms, magazines and books.

A conversation with Flavio Martella (IT)

Oggetti Socievoli presents
A conversation with Alaa Alsaraji
Hosted by Prisca Arosio

A discussion about home, objects and sociable objects during lockdown.
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Alaa is a London-based visual artist, designer and creative facilitator. Whilst maintaining her own creative practice through editorial work and exhibitions, she has also worked with various creative and educational organisations as a facilitator delivering creative workshops with children and adults. Throughout her various roles her work always seeks to emphasise the value of using creativity as a pedagogical process to address and explore larger issues such as identity, faith and race.

A conversation with Alaa Alsaraji

'A Conversation with' Hosted by Prisca Arosio
What's the value of home and objects during the lockdown? In our interview series we discuss with relevant professionals about home, objects, social isolation experiences due to Covid-19 pandemic, as well as projects and articles that look at the topics from multiple views. 

The interview series is part of the social project called Oggetti Socievoli - which translates in english as Sociable Objects - to bring attention to homes and home-objects along with their social interaction values. The initiative invited the public during the spring of 2020 to share a photo, with a short note, of discovered, rediscovered and reinterpreted home objects during social isolation due to Covid-19 Pandemic. It resulted in hundreds of submissions and a bilingual book publication ‘The season of home objects’ which showcases those participations along with essays by invited artists, writers, designers, academics in a social study of home objects in relation to people’s lockdown experiences.
Fine more here: https://oggettisocievoli.club/

A conversation with Flavio Martella (IT)

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