Living Room I-doc

Caterina Sartori

2025

United Kingdom
English

The residents of a public housing estate in London (UK) face the demolition of their homes as part of an urban regeneration programme. Many refuse the plan and organise against it—in the streets, in the courts, and in their own living rooms. Living Room is a multimodal, interactive online documentary (i-doc) created as part of an anthropological research project. The i-doc foregrounds the analyses, experiences, and activism of low-income, racialised residents who resist the demolition assemblage and the gentrification of their neighbourhood. It asks: How is everyday life made and remade within and despite the structural violence of demolition, dispossession, social cleansing, and the attendant gentrification? How do residents assert their rights to home, community, and the city while refusing predetermined outcomes?
Living Room offers users the freedom to navigate five thematic strands in any order they choose. Each strand represents an instantiation of the demolition assemblage—conceived as a bundle of processes, materials, temporalities, and discourses. The interactive form of the i-doc mirrors the open-ended and uncertain nature of demolition itself, providing space for residents’ voices and their refusal to accept the erasure of their homes.
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