Public Domestic

The Public Domestic project documents how improvised interventions have reformatted domestic spaces with a focus on people in the American Southwest.Over the past several years, in part stemming from the pandemic and mitigation measures, many of the shifts to daily life took place not in the public sphere but in private homes. Ad-hoc responses, mutual aid, and mediatized life-at-home altered the conditions of domestic interiors. This exhibition is part documentary, cataloging shifting conditions of living and relationships to the home, and part imaginative, projecting forward how shared domestic infrastructure might radically redefine visions of resilient neighborhoods.

College of Design, University of Oregon in Portland
January - June, 2024

Project Leads:
Gabriel Fries-Briggs 
César A. Lopez

Project Assistants:
Courteney Begay
Antolin Gervacio
Lance Parisot
Marisa Trujillo

With support from The University of New Mexico, Center for Regional Studies and UNM School of Architecture + Planning

Above photo by Awar Meman, awarmeman.com

Above photo by Awar Meman, awarmeman.com