Synopsis:
Nowadays’ news is all covered about the corona virus outbreak. The virus that started from the Asia has now further spread out to Europe, and it is hard to not doubt this situation as a crisis for all people. Today’s streets are empty and in consequence, every stores are closed. All the people who were out on the streets are now at their home. An apartment is a shelter for people to dwell. It may provide a protection, security, coziness or in contrast, a sense of isolation and restriction. The home that we believed to be a shelter are now becoming a media to isolate us from the outside world. Becoming lone by the crisis occurring outside the boundary of ‘shelter’.
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De Certeau, M. (1984). Spatial Stories. In The Practice of Everyday Life (pp. 115-130), translated by Steven Randall. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Londono, E. and Ortiz, A., 2020. Coronavirus Travel Restrictions, Across The Globe. [online] Nytimes.com. Available at: <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/travel/coronavirus-travel-restrictions.html> [Accessed 15 March 2020].
Wojcik, P. R. (2018). What Makes the Apartment Complex? In Urban Living and Global Screen Cultures (pp. 1-20), edited by Wojcik, P. R. Durham: Duke University Press
Name: Jeein Kim
UID: 3035659991
Appreciate that you are considering a specific infrastructure as site, the apartment complex. Your narrative here could benefit from offering us more detail and insights about the complex. Through your imagery and narrative, How do you take us through this idea of “dwelling” or “escaping”?