We have an increasingly unsettled relationship with home (Lauzon, 2017) our environment is changing, affecting the places we live, technology allows us to move more and more into our homes, artificially creating the world outside (Urry, 2002), and essentially we are the most lonely we have ever been (DAZED & SPACE10,2022). This exclusivity of the home is contrasted by an emptying of public space, in short, we lack a proper balance between public and private life.

This is one of the sixteen directions, described in this thesis that defines a possible future of home, conditioning us in our understanding and experience of home. Through proposing 3 concepts, inviting people to think about how to balance between public and private and opening up possibilities for different interactions in public space, I attempt to restore the balance between public and private. The three concepts, Noise Collecting Culture, Namebag, and The Mirroring ublic react to current behaviour and create possibilities for different behaviour, being more public and enjoying the possibilities public space has to offer.

The sixteen home conditions are an outcome of the exploration of the future of home through use of the ViP method (Hekkert & van Dijk, 2011). 236 context factors, stable and changing building blocks of the future context, create a framework from which these 16 home conditions emerged. All these sixteen future directions open up a possibility for intervening and designing.

To make a just decision about how to intervene, the ViP method relies heavily on the values of the designer. As a means to find a compass in relying on these values different experiments with the method are created and tested. These experiments try to integrate other perspectives in the design process. The experiments resulted in additions to the ViP method. The first involves the activity of stating one’s preconceptions before engaging in a certain domain, so that designers can be aware of their biases and try to look for other perspectives during their process. The second is the activity of defending the mission statement, the design goal and vision the design has for the future. Through incorporating other entities in this defence: Gaia, The Other and The Things, the effects of the desired proposition are evaluated.