GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT
as part of EDIT, 2019
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is part of an ongoing project, Honey, I’m Home, which began as a response to rethinking the architecture of degrowth. The GDP was exhibited at the Oslo Architecture Triennale in 2019.
The GDP is a fictional prototype for collectivising domestic labour. As an alternative to the capitalist assumption that housework is most efficient when performed individually, the GDP is a device that can be used only by three people.
The project explores the domestic realm as a space of performance (with associated performative rituals), and more importantly as a political project, rather than a space that has organically grown out of an innate, natural human behaviour. As the base unit of our current socio-economic system, the nuclear family and its home, is a key starting point when trying to rethink the way we live together.
