F23 Workshop
Course Name:
Domestic Parade
Type:
workshop
Location:
Ball State CAP
Year:
2023

Description:
Domestic Parade is a three-day workshop that invites students to explore the boundaries of domesticity through defamiliarization and estrangement. By bringing household objects into unfamiliar, non-domestic environments, participants collectively transform these spaces into temporary living conditions, questioning deeply ingrained ideas of what constitutes a house, a home, or a city. The workshop begins by identifying representational conventions—such as a child’s iconic gable-roof house or a student’s predictable zoning of kitchen, bedroom, and living room—and challenges these habitual assumptions. Through acts of occupation, displacement, and reconfiguration, students are encouraged to rethink the symbolic and spatial frameworks that shape our everyday understanding of domestic life.