In developing a domestic project, there are many different approaches and processes based on practice and theory that we can call on. The specific path we choose will be conditioned by geographical factors, social structures and questions of mobility—and in some cases by situations of individual or collective emergency. This set of factors, combined with forceful approaches, can lead us up previously uncommon avenues: appropriation—as opposed to acquisition—self-construction and the re-use of derelict spaces. But interpretations of the domestic are also conditioned by economic factors and in situations of instability, these can develop extreme approaches, which we want to examine here.
