Introduction

Seeking Home

Rooted in the idea of housing as both a physical enclosure and an imagined space, “Seeking Home” challenges conventional definitions of home by exploring a range of institutional, experimental, and utopian contexts. Contemporary concerns about privacy and access are examined through the lenses of cultural heritage, the human body, fictional landscapes, and refuge. The loss of home also resonates across the installations that consider how historic events, public policy, and intolerance have driven people—at times by force—to construct new ideas of home.