[cs_content][cs_element_section _id=”1″ ][cs_element_layout_row _id=”2″ ][cs_element_layout_column _id=”3″ ][cs_element_content_area _id=”4″ ][/cs_element_layout_column][/cs_element_layout_row][/cs_element_section][cs_element_section _id=”5″ ][cs_element_layout_row _id=”6″ ][cs_element_layout_column _id=”7″ ][cs_element_accordion _id=”8″ ][cs_element_accordion_item _id=”9″ ][cs_element_accordion_item _id=”10″ ][/cs_element_accordion][/cs_element_layout_column][cs_element_layout_column _id=”11″ ][cs_element_accordion _id=”12″ ][cs_element_accordion_item _id=”13″ ][cs_element_accordion_item _id=”14″ ][/cs_element_accordion][/cs_element_layout_column][/cs_element_layout_row][/cs_element_section][cs_element_section _id=”15″ ][cs_element_layout_row _id=”16″ ][cs_element_layout_column _id=”17″ ][cs_element_content_area _id=”18″ ][/cs_element_layout_column][/cs_element_layout_row][/cs_element_section][/cs_content][cs_content_seo]The Living Room Archive
The Living Room Archive is a collective project that aims to construct a visual archive of this particular space using creative participation through workshops and digital tools, as well as showcasing the work of various artists and photographers. This ongoing collective archive will help us to reflect and analyse the sociological, psychological, anthropological and cultural importance of this domestic space.The Living Room Archive
The Living Room Archive is a collective project that aims to construct a visual archive of this particular space using creative participation through workshops and digital tools, as well as showcasing the work of various artists and photographers. This ongoing collective archive will help us to reflect and analyse the sociological, psychological, anthropological and cultural importance of this domestic space.
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Our home, both the location and the physical building itself, influences almost every aspect of our lives – from how well we sleep, to how often we see friends, to how safe and secure we feel. If we want to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities, there can hardly be a more important place to start than the home: it is where most people spend most of their life. Once a site of fundamental social and spatial conventions emancipated from the pressures of the world, the living room is the place for family dinners, the main stage for the lives portrayed on TV sitcoms and the room most often preserved by museums to depict the lives of historic periods.
Has the humble living room changed? What does a living room signify? How does this space unify the lives of displaced people in search of a new home? Does a single room reveal the spatial nature of social networks or the concurrent domestic and professional behaviours of those working from home?
The living room is also a sanctuary for photographs, displaying images of those who left the house or are away from it, keeping them alive or present. It has also been the creative context for many artists, photographers, designers and writers examining the significance of this domestic space in the context of societal and technological change. The living rooms of the future and its function will depend on the world we are able to imagine ourselves as a society.
We are looking for anyone interested to participate and hope this collective effort will help us to reflect on the various aspects of this domestic space and help us to imagine a different future.
SHOWCASE
As part of this project we will showcase the work of different photographers as well as visual materials from historical collections that have been produced in and about this important domestic space.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Who can participate?
This project is open to public participation and everyone is welcome to contribute to this archive. We are looking to source photographs from the city of Bristol but also encourage national and international contributions which will constitute a broad representation of this symbolic space.
How to participate?
We are looking for digital images or digital scans from family albums or local archives. Please add the description, year and author if known alongside the image. There are various ways on how you can contribute to this archive:
EMAIL
Send us your pictures via email to engagement@wordpressblueprint. The ideal resolution will be 300dpi and 2000px longest side but we accept any other resolution too.
INSTAGRAM
Post your picture in your instagram account and use the hashtag #bpflivingroom
COLLABORATIONS
As part of The Living Room Archive we are delivering a series of collaborative partnerships to create content to be included in this digital archive.
The imagined symbolic space
Our first collaboration will be in collaboration with Wellspring Settlement (Inner City/Central/ East Bristol) and Creative Shift (St.Pauls, Southmead, Hartcliffe and Knowle) and the Bristol Local Archives. We want to engage with elderly and young groups in the community who may not have access to the internet or a smartphone and consequently may have been more affected by the current restrictions. We are inviting participants to establish an intergenerational dialogue by producing creative responses with photo collage art-packages,
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