Domesticità e addomesticamento. La costruzione della sfera domestica nella vita quotidiana.

Abstract

This paper explores the concept of domestication as constituted by material and symbolic practices defining space as a domestic sphere. On the basis of this premises, we will highlight the specificities of this process from two different but interrelated points of observation, i.e. domestic and urban space. Both these spatial-temporal contexts are domesticated by those everyday practices producing ontological security while transforming space and its objects to their own ends. In this way they modify its significance and contextually redesign the public- private boundaries.