Explorations of home and homemaking between house and neighborhood in Nepal
Art, heritage and built formations of the city play a central role for homemaking as a community and space making practice.
Project description
The Subproject B02 proposes a contribution to the concept of Heimat as a multi-relational and transcultural model, focusing in the artistic and social practice of young Nepalese stakeholders. This appears to be relevant considering new global nationalist, populist or other tribal entities and essentialisms, as well as for critical regional studies.
With the aid of ethnological methods, the Subproject examines current praxeological aspects of homemaking and belonging in Nepal: urbanization, migration and natural disasters, leading to reinterpretations of Heimat. Selected actors and initiatives represent both everyday and activist practices of urban and translocal neighborhood making. They process and manage repositories of material and intangible cultural heritage in the metropolitan region of the Kathmandu Valley in thickly diverse ways. Practices include artistic practice, curation and festivals, but also archival constitution and social and architectural spatial design (neighborhood as dynamic process of placemaking).
