Not only a place to shelter, home contains a complex meaning to individuals, the space condenses memory and knowledge into materiality, and embodies the history of the body. Like other beings, humans create and copy the space of belonging while adapting to another environment, which becomes a manifestation of identity. This workshop welcomes participants to unfold the meaning of making home through imagining, measuring the space with participants’ own bodies, creating symbols, and storytelling via drawing and sharing, to discover alternative ways of mapping personal narratives and history.  

Sharo’s workshop is coined with her research essay Migratory Space in Working In Progress: Reimagine the Identity in Urban Spectrum. Focusing on Herianto Sulindro’s trajectory and the process of homemaking. Herianto is a Chinese-Indonesian architect based in Zürich who dedicated his whole life to urban planning and architecture between Switzerland and Indonesia from 1960 to the 1990s. Sharo is interested in the colliding cultural elements and personal touch of Herianto’s curation of his home in Zürich. Inspired by rich signs and graphic symbols in architectural blueprints, she attempted to apply her research and practice to weave dialogues discussing how individuals build and portray the abstract yet tangible meaning of home from different generations and life journeys.