DOCUMENTARY FILM
WORK PACKAGE 7
In collaboration with filmmakers Third Street Studio, the documentary captures the daily lives of four home-based workers. It showcases their paid and unpaid routines, and how these routines interface with the architecture of the home and the wider neighbourhood. Filming of participants commenced in April 2023, with an estimated release in the final quarter of 2024.
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Document and theorise local ecologies of resilience and adaptability in home-based work: Spatial, Social, Digital
at home: does the home-worker’s housing and home-based ICT infrastructure adequately support their work? How do workers adjust their home to accommodate their work?
in place: how does home-based work interact with the neighbourhood? Does it contribute positively to the neighbourhood, by adding social or cultural capital (character, services, networks, heritage), or generating shared social and economic responsibilities? How do home-based workers use virtual networks (e.g., platforms)?
HABITUS
COMING SOON
Habitus follows the path of four home-based businesses dreamed up by a young generation of Singaporeans. In dealing with the anxieties of living in Singapore, these individuals creatively re-imagine and re-define their domestic spaces to suit their business needs. The sacrifices undertaken diminishes their personal space for living and reduces their potential for a stable income. In pursuing their home-based businesses, a career and life that others would not have considered; the documentary examines alternative ways of existence that circumvent the presets of our built environments.
