KoozArch x Prada Frames is the audio series accompanying the annual multidisciplinary symposium, curated by design and research studio Formafantasma for Prada and held during Milan’s Salone del Mobile. Now in its third year, the multi-day program delves into the complex relationship between the natural environment and design. Entitled Being Home, the 2024 edition looks at the living environment as a framework to address contemporary challenges.The extensive program of events took place from Sunday, April 14 through Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan. For the occasion, it opened for intimate conversations and thematic lectures, taking place simultaneously within its various spaces and creating an ideal, uninterrupted exchange of information between the living room, bedroom, dining room, bathroom, and library. Rooms Bedroom: Gülsüm Baydar, Philippe Rahm, Matthew Wolf-Meyer  Library: Michelangelo Frammartino, Anna Kauber, Mary Kuhn, Isabella Rossellini, Jack Self Bathroom: Jack Halberstam, Helen Hester, Andrés Jaque, Marina Otero Verzier Dining Room: Aric Chen, Sam Chermayeff, Dominique Petit-Frère, Anna Puigjaner Living room: Jayden Ali, Paola Antonelli, Brigitte Baptiste, Beatriz Colomina, Kate Crawford, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Keller Easterling, Alva Gotby, Jack Halberstam, Andrés Jaque, Kirstin Munro, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Marta Segarra, Françoise Vergès, Mark Wigley, Mabel O. Wilson.  Hosts: Simone Farresin & Andrea Trimarchi [FormaFantasma], Natalia Grabowska & Alice Rawsthorn.Â
The session looks at living spaces as normative enclosures and holders of bodies that are yet to be dismantled, queering vessels hosting alternative family structures. The session also explores rituals of diaspora communities in architectural space and homemaking.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session analyses Earth as our shared living room, investigating its diverse co-inhabiting forms, such as the Amazon forest, Modernist architectures and socially unequal cityscapes.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session explores the living room as a receptacle of collective practices, historical and colonial legacies, geopolitical forces, and societal biases, with the aim of cultivating new perspectives on homemaking.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session examines how design has evolved to address various behaviors, needs, and ways of living. It will then explore cell phones as contemporary living spaces and investigates architectures that foster shared intimacy.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session explores the relationships between the scales of the room, the house, and the street, inspired by Virginia Woolf's concept of ‘a room of one's own'. The session then examines the influence of generative technological advancements on these scales.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session looks into everyday practices and domestic infrastructures through economic histories and narratives. The session also explores practices of care and collective ownership beyond traditional monolithic definitions of the home.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-living-roomRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast
The session explores architectures as performances and rituals of community care and gathering.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-dining-roomRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session looks into the domesticity of kitchens as spaces of reconfigured relationships and daily micro-politics.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-dining-roomRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session examines how the kitchen shapes socio-economic norms and gender biases. It also investigates collective community kitchen practices as acts of political resistance.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-dining-roomRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast
The session looks into the multiscalar dimensions of a bathroom, exploring the systems and technologies that shape the space.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-bathroom Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session investigates the bathroom as an immersive body of water and an architecture of streams, fluids, sex, and gender.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-bathroom Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session explores the bathroom as a space for healing, toxicity, and hidden infrastructures and will then look into feminist politics of leisure and the struggles to recognize, redistribute, and reduce domestic labour.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-bathroom Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast
The session explores living beyond the perimeter of the home, examining human productive practices in the garden and the reproductive rituals of animals.Find accompanying images here: https://www.koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-from-the-libraryRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session explores living beyond the perimeter of the home, from narratives of gardening, farming and the reproductive rituals of animals, through global histories of cultivation and domestication.Find accompanying images here: https://www.koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-from-the-libraryRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The session analyses the interplay between the technical and the emotional realities within a home, examining how materials, real estate codes, regulations and feelings shape the essence of the modern home.Find accompanying images here: https://www.koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-from-the-libraryRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast
The session considers the bedroom as a space shaped by emerging sleep norms in 19th-century Europe and North America, and how these norms, in turn, have influenced socio-economic structures in societies.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-bedroomRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The BEDROOM SESSIONS explore sleep as a socio-economic construct, navigating the tensions between the private and public spheres and the material and immaterial properties of the room.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-bedroomRead the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast
KoozArch inaugurates the first episode of the audio series dedicated to Prada Frames: Being Home with a conversation between KoozArch's founder Federica Zambeletti and the brains behind the brilliance: Prada Frames curators Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi of FormaFantasma, and co-hosts Alice Rawsthorn and Natalia Grabowska.The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
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