Domestic Labor as Design explores the work of maintaining life—not as personal failure or private sacrifice, but as a generative site of cultural authorship. Through essays, field notes, and visual frameworks, we study how people design their lives around caregiving, housekeeping, and everyday coordination—and how that invisible work shapes our sense of time, identity, and worth.
Rather than positioning domestic labor as something to escape or outsource, this study asks: What happens when we bring design thinking, narrative attention, and cultural analysis into the home? What systems are we quietly building? What values do they reflect? How might we make them visible?
Each module invites reflection on a different dimension of domestic work—emotional, logistical, aesthetic, economic, ecological, spiritual—and explores:
- How do we design care systems inside households?
- What inherited norms guide how we show up at home?
- How do we restore dignity to the labor that sustains life?
- What counts as productive labor—and why?
Full Module List:
- Home as a site of resistance
- Home as a site of recovery
- Home as a site of self-trust
- Home as a site of ritual and rhythm
- Home as a site of creative work
- Home as a site of emotional labor
- Home as a site of cultural transmission
- Home as a site of system design
- Home as a site of civic preparation