Studio Two - 'Home' & 'Client'

Present to each other your three statements (and supporting quotes) that describe different concepts of “home”.  Discuss these concepts of home and identify how the understanding of “home” has changed over time, in the context of the  prescribed readings from 1976 and 2004. Write a description of these changes and post it on your blog. 
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Supporting statement (and supporting quotes) that describe different concepts of "home"

Darcy

• Home is a place where you can be yourself and it can reflect you and your attitude.
  "The home itself becomes a vehicle for expressing identity".
•  A home is a place where you can feel safe from the rest of the world.  It protects you and gives you peace of mind
  "The concept of security includes both physical and psychic security.  Both forms of security are obtained in the home "
•  houses are not built, homes are made by the people that live in them.
  "Humans are homemakers"

Dominique

• the features of a home and its surroundings should not only provide a sense of identity, but it should provide either a physical or metaphoric sense of security and stimulation.
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• home is a multidimensional concept.  To understand and build a 'house', one needs to understand the many fundamental ideas and feeling surrounding a 'Home' and how this is created.
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• Stimulation within a 'home' is important in assuring
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Discuss these concepts of home and identify how the understanding of “home” has changed over time.

• Whilst the understanding of a 'home' can change over time, the understanding of 'home' changes more with the aging of its dwellers.  When the dwellers of a house age, their 'home' becomes a place of nostalgia. The home becomes a display of personal items or tokens, reflecting the time change
•  Up until the 90's  a family home consisted of a square house in a yard, whereas now a 'home' can be a studio, or a small apartment
• in recent years the concepts of making a home have changed, due to the culture change.  A 'home' not longer is centered around family, the idea
• the family structure has changed significantly, resulting in a dramatic change to a house as a 'home'