In the context of the housing crises across the UK and Ireland, the process explores how personal narratives could help us reflect on policy and the possibility of housing justice.

The conversations through drawing and conversation reveal home as a system – of materials, atmospheres, and different kinds of labour.

The housing experiences explored are sites of transition— A rural home in the North of Ireland where traditional forms and processes give way to new energy sources and building methods. Terraced and council housing and council house to moderist council flat in Manchester (early–mid 20th C)reflecting the shift from early modern ideals of domesticity (individual houses, garden city principles) to modernist urban housing solutions (flats, efficiency, industrialized building).

Types of value became apparent through reflections on available (scarce) materials, objects of meaning, daily rituals, and connections beyond the interior space to sources of sustenance and meaning.