What is home?
Sometimes we think that home is the house we were born in, or the family…sounds like home is something from the past, something that has to do only with our origins. But home doesn’t have to be a forever fixed object at all. Home is a direction: the direction of return, the idea for a project, a promise to create something, the act of coming up with something that translates ideas into the spaces we live in. So maybe home has something to do with future too. It means that building a home in this other sense is a matter of design: the act of building, of making. Making a home, making a place, creating a space. Home is where your ideas are safe to grow. And to be able to reflect on this, we invited two very different speakers, both involved in different aspects of design, or I would say, different vocations to design. Welcome Francesca Perani and Donatella Caggiano
About the speaker
FRANCESCA PERANI
Architect-activist, visual designer, educator. She graduated in architecture from Politecnico di Milano, trained in Belgium, Australia, Uk.
Her work ranges from interior architecture to interactive design, from illustration to set design. Material and visual experimentation, emotional and communicative charge finds its expression in spaces, objects and multimedia.
She is the founder of CUTOUTMIX platform delivering diverse silhouettes for the creative industry and co-founder of REBELARCHITETTE association advocating for equality in Architecture.
The practice is driven by the power of shared creativity as an effective instrument to bring about change.
DONATELLA CAGGIANO
Donatella Caggiano is a communication expert and human centric strategy designer and facilitator, whose work focuses on helping brands, organizations and communities design a sense of belonging, especially while in transition, by helping them build the way they connect, impact and matter.
She is the creator and host of The Design of Return podcast, that she will present today, a bilingual podcast exploring the meaning of home for the in-betweeners: people who live in between different countries, cultures, language and identities. In her monthly newsletter, The Atlas, where she writes about placemaking and cultural geography.
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