Des-Habitat do-it-yourself 15 years later the reality

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Barbara Ess

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Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges

Des-Habitat do-it-yourself 15 years later the realityDes Habitat interrogates the ways in which Indigenous arts and crafts appeared within discourses and imaginaries of modernity through the lens of Habitat, the arts and design magazine created by architect Lina Bo Bardi in 1950. Instead of the content shown in the images of Indigenous objects, more the project interrogates the context from which they emerged as signifiers of modernity in Habitat, examining how Habitat itself, by virtue of its language