The Production of Home : A Theoretical Conceptualization of Housing with Henri Lefebvre

Stanovanje je izrazito kompleksan i multidimenzionalan proces čije različite aspekte proučava niz posebnih sociologija, ali i različitih disciplina poput arhitekture, geografije i urbanizma. Može se tvrditi da je stanovanje lokus mikro i makro razina promišljanja društvenosti u kojemu se istovremeno prožimaju makro fenomeni poput financijalizacije i komodifikacije stanovanja te mikro fenomeni poput svakodnevnih praksi stanovanja, situiranosti subjekta i osjećaja sigurnosti kojeg povezujemo sa stanovanjem. Unatoč tomu, u literaturi dominira makro pristup koji, uz neupitan doprinos u svome polju, po strani ostavlja mikro-razinske fenomene i pitanje zašto se određeni prostori nazivaju domom. Polazeći od Lefebvreove Produkcije prostora, ali smještanjem ove teorije u kontekst njegova opusa, kao i unutar marksističkih, socioloških i filozofskih debata dvadesetog stoljeća, rad ispituje mogućnost teorijske i empirijske primjene Lefebvreove teorije na pitanje stanovanja, ali i ulogu stanovanja u Lefebvreovom teorijskom projektu. Zbog njene specifičnosti te velikog broja filozofskih i umjetničkih utjecaja ističe se važnost sinkronijskog i dijakronijskog čitanja Lefebvreove teorije, ali i nužnost rekonstrukcije Lefebvreove dijalektičke metode i njegovog shvaćanja alijenacije koje bitno modificira u odnosu na Hegela i Marxa. Lefebvreova verzija dijalektike s tri postavljena pojma epistemološka je postavka, a shvaćanje alijenacije kao opstrukciju mogućeg teorijski lajtmotiv koji prožimaju njegov opus, a time i teoriju produkcije prostora. Zbog toga se, kao preduvjet teorijskoj i empirijskoj primjeni teorije produkcije prostora, ističe nužnost pravilnog razumijevanja Lefebvreove dijalektičke metode.Housing is a complex and multidimensional process whose various aspects are studied by a number of sociologies and different disciplines, most notably architecture, geography, and urbanism. It can be argued that housing is the locus of micro-level and macro-level of the social theory, in which macro phenomena, such as the financialization and commodification of housing, and micro phenomena such as everyday housing practices, the subject's situatedness and the sense of security that we associate with housing are mixed. Despite this, the literature is dominated by a macro approach which, with an unquestionable contribution in its field, leaves aside micro-level phenomena and the question of why certain spaces are called home. Starting from Lefebvre's Production of Space, but placing this theory in the context of his work, as well as within Marxist, sociological, and philosophical debates of the twentieth century, the paper examines the possibility of theoretical and empirical application of Lefebvre's theory to the question of housing, as well as the role of housing in Lefebvre's theoretical project. Due to its specificity and a large number of philosophical and artistic influences, the importance of a synchronic and diachronic reading of Lefebvre's theory is highlighted, but also the necessity of reconstructing Lefebvre's dialectical method and his understanding of alienation, which he significantly modifies in relation to Hegel and Marx. Lefebvre's version of the dialectic with three set terms is an epistemological setting, and the understanding of alienation as an obstruction of the possible theoretical leitmotif that permeates his work, and thus the theory of the production of space. For this reason, as a prerequisite for the theoretical and empirical application of the theory of space production, the necessity of a proper understanding of Lefebvre's dialectical method is emphasized