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Cultivating Co-Home

Zoe Dubil, Sahr Qureishi, and Zephaniah Romualdo
Kathy Velikov
Over time the western concept of home has equated itself to its efficiency to complete domestic functions for the user. Cultivating Co-Home serves to recalibrate the nodes of cultivation, collection, and invitation through a woven fabric of activity typically thought to be confined in the bounds of one’s personal domestic space. Through a disseminating logic of grid, ideas of domesticity are explored on varied levels of scale. On site, cultivation represents the hydroponics lab and market, collection represents the apothecary store, and invitation represents the teahouse. Within a home, consisting of an aggregation of dwellings and communal landscape spaces, these…