Housing and Domesticity

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Notes

1. Yuan Bin Lei and Lilian Chee, 03-FL3ATS (Singapore: National University of Singapore and 13 Little Pictures, 2014); Lilian Chee, “03-FLATS: Domesticity, Home and Its Representations”, 03-FLATS Research Project, 2014, http://www.03-flats.com/; Lilian Chee, “Reimagining Domesticity in 03-FLATS: Entering Singaporean Domestic Space through the Essay Film,” in Making Visible: Architecture Filmmaking, eds. Hugh Campbell and Igea Troiani (London: Intellect Books, 2018), 117–137.

2. Natalie Oswin, “The Modern Model Family at Home in Singapore: A Queer Geography,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35, no. 2 (1 April 2010): 256–268. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00379.x.

3. Non-matured estates are less than twenty years old. Typically, such estates are less developed and less equipped with amenities and public transport infrastructure.

4. Lilian Chee, “Unhousing Sexuality: Sexuality and Singlehood in Singapore’s Public Housing,” in Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression, eds. Brent Carnell, Rachael M. Scicluna, Barbara Penner, and Ben Campkin (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017), 35–50.

5. Gülsüm Baydar, “Spectral Returns of Domesticity,” Environment and Planning D, Society and Space 21, no. 1 (2003): 30.

6. Brian Massumi, Politics of Affect (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015), 94. See also: Lilian Chee, Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023).

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Lilian Chee

Lilian Chee is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, where she co-leads the Research by Design Cluster. Her research connects embodied experience and affective evidence with architectural representation and feminist politics. Her award-winning film collaboration 03-FLATS (2014) has screened in 16 major cities. She is on the editorial boards of Architectural Theory Review, Australian Feminist Studies, the idea journal and advisor for the Bloomsbury Architecture Library. Her current book projects are Architecture and Affect (Routledge, 2023) and Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance (Lund Humphries, 2022). She co-directed a documentary Objects for Thriving (2022) which connects objects, domestic spaces, structures of feeling and the elderly. She was Visiting Fellow at Future Cities Lab Singapore-ETH Centre (2018) and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Bartlett UCL (2018–2019). Her current research explores the intersection of home-based work practices with domesticity through an affective-feminist perspective.