EIGHT HOURS · EIGHT QUESTIONS
A DAY IN THE HOUSE
An ordinary day in an ordinary apartment building, told through the places and moments where life in common is made or lost. Read it slowly and answer one question for your own house.
First light on the staircase
Someone is already awake: the cleaner, a nurse going to a shift, a child. The staircase is the first public space of the day.
Water, heat, the lift
Invisible networks start working. When one fails, a house learns how much it depends on everyone.
The empty courtyard
Adults are away, children are at school, elderly neighbours watch from windows.
THINK ABOUT IT
Who looks at your courtyard in the morning, and does anyone look out for them?
GO TO THE WORLD →The meter and the bill
Money is quietly decided in a house: tariffs, repairs, contracts.
The noisy hour
Children come home, repairs begin, a drill and a piano start at once.
Dinner smells
Cooking crosses walls: a small, daily cultural exchange.
The meeting nobody attends
The general meeting needs a quorum; the house chat has four hundred messages.
THINK ABOUT IT
What would make people come, and what would make the meeting unnecessary?
GO TO THE WORLD →Lights go out, one by one
A house is a memory: who lived here, who left, who will come.
THINK ABOUT IT
What would you like a stranger to know about your house in fifty years?
GO TO THE WORLD →
YOUR ANSWER MATTERS
Leave it in the Courtyard, or tell us what your own day in the house looks like.
OPEN THE COURTYARD