XIUJIN LIU + BEN SOLL + EVAN WEINMAN

The shift from subsistence to capitalism has created a change from the sharing of resources to the commodification of space, which has created a domestic living space that is based on ownership and exploitation at the cost of community, sharing, and sustenance. Our prorject starts by investigating the domestic patterns of historical nomadic cultures, and the transition to an ownership-based society. Specifically, we research the effects that ownership has on how communities perceive space domestically. Current practtices highlight a transition from communal living to living based off of the demarcation of spaces through boundaries such as walls, fences, property lines, and rooms, all of which work to divide to keep people in or out of a space. Our project questions the current framework by reconfiguring walls to establish thresholds that interact and overlap with objects, rather than creating spatial division. As such, walls are reimagined as unstable boundaries that are porous, transparent, and im-permanent. In this way, the walls can still demarcate space without creating a solid spatial divide. Walls become thresholds, and are easily passed through, bridged over, or rotated to a more suitable position.