indagine: L’uso della casa durante l’isolamento (2021)
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In January 2021, during the third lockdown in London, I felt the need to investigate and document the experiences that everyone was living in the secrecy of their houses, analyzing how life was adapting and compressing into the domestic space. 
With the aim of giving prominence and value to these experiences, I created an online survey (survey: the use of the house during lockdown). I decided to share it on Facebook, joining an exaggerated number of groups – each of which represented different cities – to reach more people as I could. 657 people contributed to the survey anonymously, mapping a large and well-distributed sample in Italy and a few cities in other countries.
The survey collected experiences with at times ironic and dramatic shades, about how domestic spaces and our habits changed during the lockdown. It traced a complex portrait of Italy during a period of exceptionality that questioned us about new ways of inhabiting spaces.
From the survey, I created a book to collect a selection of the responses I received, divided into 8 chapters, following the new family lexicon that the pandemic period had created in Italy (affetti stabili, lavoro a distanza, quarantena etc.). Each chapter also features animated illustrations using the barrier-grid technique (scan animation).
Barrier-Grid Animations
indagine: L’uso della casa durante l’isolamento, 2021. Short film. 3000×1080 px, 3’ 24’’
The Concertina Book
This 658-page concertina book is a condominium complex that houses all the responses received from the survey. This is book shows each individual participant’s response through a 37,5 m long flexible structure that can be open and shaped according to the pleasure of the visitor.
Read the pages:
︎ Swipe left and click on one page to read the survey responses