The wrong house; a twisted guide to home

Student : Evangelia Athanasiadou
Supervisor: Adam Cowley -Evans
School of Architecture and Design, University of Plymouth, UK
Date of presentation: March 2010

Abstract
In this paper the notion of home is examined not through the nostalgic, Bachelardian lens, but rather via uncanny and twisted narratives. From the scale of the family to a national scale home is paralleled with the ‘'un-home'' due to internal dysfunctions or external powers. Home is considered in relation to notions of family, the human body, fiction, nostalgia and homelessness. The 21st century human is estranged from home and inhabits an unfamiliar, threatening environment. The paper seeks home in this contemporary, un-homely society. It concludes that those uncanny environments and experiences are those who strengthen the bond between an individual and one's home.

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