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Building on ethnography, for architecture. Private Hospitality and the Making of a "Home" (France, 2019-2021)

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In response to the migration crisis (or rather to the non-welcoming crisis), private hospitality, defined as the act of hosting - free of charge - migrants in one’s own private home, has been ongoing in France for the past five years. For the hosts and the hosted, home-making becomes necessary, transforming domestic space and the set of practices allowing homing. By providing accommodation, the host makes room for the hosted: It welcomes his or her history, journey, condition and anxieties. And whether there is reciprocity or not, relationships are created, both in space and in time. Starting from these supposedly hospitable and welcoming situations, this paper looks at the spatialization of private hospitality as a particular type of cohabitation. While many researchers have investigated the topic of private hospitality, focusing primarily on the host’s discourse and without considering spatial issues, this research seeks to take into account the spatial environment with the dialogic process of home-making, between hosts and hosted. In the specific context of migration, one subject to a series of asymmetric relationships, how can we overcome the agreed narratives, those infused by authorities to ensure the migrant’s good integration and legalization? In a context of high vulnerability, how can we investigate the domain of the intimate and express the everyday? How can we discuss banalities ? This research uses feminist epistemology as a way of apprehending a reality that integrates the feminist political project, that is to say, that constructs a set of knowledges less blind to the experiences of dominated groups. Drawing from an ethnological investigation, a diversity of methodological approaches have been necessary in order to make room for the hosted and the hosts narrations and to grasp the socio-spatial negotiations. These approaches overcome traditional methods of investigation (interview, ethno-architectural survey, mental map...) in order to question the place of the observer. By allowing participation, performance, use of stand-ins, role-playing, self-giving and by setting up protocols over time, they have made it possible to produce knowledge that subverts hegemonic scientific paradigms, collecting narrations and stories on cohabitation. Invoking different disciplines (such as ethnolography, sociology, psychology, geography, architecture), this paper unveils things that would be otherwise difficult to grasp, interpreting them, and putting them at the service of architecture.
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hal-03584703 , version 1 (22-02-2022)

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Stephanie Dadour. Building on ethnography, for architecture. Private Hospitality and the Making of a "Home" (France, 2019-2021). The Observers observed: architectural uses of ethnography, 2021. ⟨hal-03584703⟩
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