Metaforiske Huse - imagining female residencies

Housing conversation: how we build together
The Metaphorical house - Imagining female residences
We-are-in-this-together-but-we-are-not-the-same
Rosi Braidotti
Five homes for five women by seven female architects and educators in imaginary
conversation with Barbara Hepworth, Agnes Martin, Madelon Vrijsendorp, Orlando/Virginia Woolf and Josephine Baker.
The project consists of five houses (basswood, paint), scale 1:20, a series of drawings for each house (mixed media, digital, watercolour, crayon, pastel, thread, collage and more), and a letter ”She has a pen” reflecting on the conditions under which the houses have been built.
By Ida Flarup, Camilla Hornemann, Mathilde Lesenecal, Maria Mengel,
Anne Pind, Anne Romme and Tine Bernstorff Aagaard
The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture.
The project is supported by The Dreyer Foundation.

We share the same everyday activities. We teach together in various constellations. We are concerned with questions on gender, architecture and the conditions under which we work, within our institutional framework. Conditions meaning that in between part-time teaching, office work, picking up children, research time, buying groceries, planning and homework, we have very limited time to meet and collaborate.
Finding ourselves working from our dinner tables and bedrooms in spring 2020, we felt an urgent need to re-establish a shared space for making. A delicate space. A strong space. A playful space. A forgiving space. A space where we could listen to each other and the material among us. This is how we started collaborating. We committed ourselves to build together.
We saw, draw, lie about, laugh and weep. When one of us stops, someone else takes over. We brew tea. We are not alone. Together, we work in an intense, caring and dedicated space where intimacy is paramount.