Construção da identidade através do espaço doméstico: o que se expõe na varanda

Faz parte deste Trabalho Projecto um vídeo que só poderá ser consultado na Biblioteca Mário Sottomayor CardiaThis project intends to analyse and study the balcony and what items/objects people choose to display while in it, intertwining such objects and their usage with living in the domestic space, linking them to the social aspect seen in both the public and private spaces. Besides trying to understand in what way the items displayed contribute to the construction of identity, I also intend to understand if this is a symbolic doorway to the rest of the house. All of these issues call for an analysis of the house, the objects, the lifestyle and consumption. The domestic space can be seen as the focus of my study since although the balcony can only be seen from the streets outside, it can only be accessed through the inside of the house, and all the other aspects of investigation can only be analysed from the relationship of the inhabitant with that space. For this reason, the dicotomy of the balcony as a public space and as a private space is not forgotten, and becomes, instead, a central focus of this research