Room in New York, 1932 by Edward Hopper. image courtesy of MONU

Over the last three years we at MONU became increasingly interested in the question of 'how should we live together?' - a question that we analyzed, for example, in our issue #18 on "Communal Urbanism", in which we focused on contemporary communal living in cities in general and on contemporary communal housing projects in particular. But at the same time we became more and more intrigued by the question of how life is organized in the indoor spaces of our cities and to what extent interiors become ever more urban, aspects that we investigated extensively in issue #21 entitled "Interior Urbanism". Both questions and issues made us want to delve more deeply into the homes of people and we grew ever more fascinated by the domestic aspects of cities, by everything that is related to the human home, the habitat, and the scale of the house, people's own universe, something that is usually hidden and private. We started to consider the house as one of the most meaningful spaces for urban people, a space to which everybody relates, where everybody spends most of his time and for which people are willing to pay the most. That is why we decided to dedicate an entire issue to a topic that we call "Domestic Urbanism". 

Thus, this new issue of MONU will deal with the question of how the homes of people are changing these days and how they will change in the future and what impact these changes will have on cities and their inhabitants. But this new issue will also examine how the contemporary city and the city of the future impacts and will impact the homes of people and the way people live in them. When we speak of homes and the "domestic", we mean all kind of different forms of housing and dwellings that are used as permanent, semi-permanent or temporary residences for individuals, families, households or several families. They can be, for example, houses or apartments. Homes typically provide areas and facilities for sleeping, preparing food, eating, hygiene, leisure, but also increasingly for home entertainment, hosting guests and tourists, and for spaces to work at home....continue reading in Submit.

Deadline for submission: December 31, 2015

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