That Feels Like Home, Podcast Season 1
Our first series explored the meaning of ‘home’ and problematized its meanings in the context of the collections. Each episode explored MoDA’s collections in imaginative ways to bring new insights and argue for the relevance of the museum’s collections to debates today.
That Feels Like Home: Trailer
That Feels Like Home builds new stories around MoDA’s collections to explore what home means to us.
Episode 1: Home Memories
Ana Baeza, MoDA's Curator, discusses with Jill Stewart (Middlesex University) and Alina Tiits (Museum of Brands) how museums are using their collections for reminiscing, especially to work with people living with dementia.
Episode 2: Home Displacements
Why is the popular image of the suburbs associated with the white middle-class nuclear family? Ana Baeza, MoDA's curator, discusses with sociologist Dr Magali Peyrefitte (Brunel University) how the notion of the suburb has been constructed and transformed.
Episode 3: Home (Dis)Comforts
What if you woke up one day and your home was the same but a third smaller? In this episode, Ana Baeza, MoDA's Curator, discusses with Nicky Lambert (Middlesex University) and Paula Chambers (Leeds Art University) how our homes can feel uncanny, uncomfortable and unsafe, and how, historically, this has had a lot to do with gendered constructions of domestic space and mental health.
Episode 4: Home Planet
How might natural dyes offer a sustainable alternative to the synthetic dye industry? Ana Baeza, MoDA's Curator, talks with three textile practitioners about their work with natural dyes, inspired by MoDA's collections. They discuss issues of sustainability and environmental activism.
Episode 5: Home Writer
Are we at home when we write? Ana Baeza, MoDA's Curator, talks to Josie Barnard (Assoc. Prof. in Creative Writing, De Montfort University) about practices of writing, the materials and tools we use, and how this has all changed with digital technology.