Living

What is home?

“Home is where the heart is. No matter how the heart lives. Inside your heart where love lives, that is where you have to make yourself at home.”
– Sally Fingerette

We each come in contact with myriad designs every day. Some we can physically touch, while others we come into contact with only as part of a larger design, such as a telecommunication network. These range from chairs to telephones, books to ceramic coffee mugs, subway handles to yoga mats, door knobs to jewelry, tiebacks for window treatments to currency, light bulbs to running shoes, chandeliers to websites, automobiles to coat buttons, cooking utensils to bridges, hair combs to elevator buttons, faucets to spoons, and clocks to blue jeans.

How does the way in which we go about our daily lives reveal our connections to others, our specific values, and the universal? Home is not a place. The concept of home is created and imbued with meaning through our relationships with others. How does design punctuate, swirl, and wrap around these relationships?

Living, with the three sections Childhood, Community,and Living Simply explores designs that weave into our everyday life and the way we live. How does the way we live reveal our shared human experiences?

The final section DIV: Children’s Space is content including activities, projects, events, and books that is developed specifically for children to explore design.