This publication is a reflection and MIDTERM MANUAL for ongoing artistic and design research and activities for ‘User’s Manual: The Grand Domestic Revolution’. Features include surveys of contemporary cooperative and co-housing movements, an essay linking artistic and domestic labour and an interview with Dolores Hayden, author of the ‘original’ ‘The Grand Domestic Revolution’, a chronicle of 19th century material feminist design movement in the United States. With an overview of the project processed thus far and extracts offered from the evolving project library, this publication is a proposition for readers to engage with the collective research process of GDR.
Texts by Peter Bakker, Binna Choi, John Curl, Dolores Hayden, Maiko Tanaka, Marina Vishmidt
Edited by Binna Choi and Maiko Tanaka
Co-published by Bedford Press and Casco
Designed by Scott Ponik