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Book Launch: They Asked Me to Design a House, I Asked Them to Design a Home: Beyond the Architectural House. Reflections and Exercises on Domestic Life
On Thursday, November 27th, 8:00pm Hyper Hypo invites you to the launch of They Asked Me to Design a House, I Asked Them to Design a Home: Beyond the Architectural House. Reflections and Exercises on Domestic Life (Set Margins’, 2025), edited by Ilaria Palmieri and Georgina Pantazopoulou (Common Ground Practice). The evening will include a conversation with the editors, followed by a panel discussion with Panos Dragonas and readings by Anna Karampela (co-text editor and proofreader of the book).
The talk will be held in English.
A few words about the book:
This collaborative exploration invites us to pause and reconsider what truly shapes the spaces we inhabit.Rooted in the belief that domesticity is not a static setting for everyday life but a living and evolvingexperience, the book expands from the scope of the architectural lens. By reintroducing the home assomething felt, remembered, imagined, and continuously made, this publication tackles the issues ofdwelling, belonging and shared living, with architects, interior architects, educators, designers, andpractitioners whose work touches on care, intimacy, and everyday rituals.
Divided into two correlated parts, Reflections and Exercises, the book brings together twenty-onecontributions, including essays, conversations, and interactive exercises. While Reflections invites you on ajourney through alternating perceptions and experiences of domestic life, Exercises opens a space toexplore home yourself: not just as a concept, but as a personal, unfolding experience.
Inherently tied to space. Closely connected to the decorative. A reminder of the presence of hospitality. A shared exercise in practicing domesticity.
The publication has been made possible with the support of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Creative Industries Fund NL.
ILARIA PALMIERI is a spatial designer and PhD candidate at Roma Tre University. Based between Italy and the Netherlands, she explores dwelling practices, in particular in contexts of migration, and participatory spatial politics. Her research combines architectural analysis, ethnography, and participatory mapping to foreground migrants’ agency and inform housing policy. Her work has been exhibited at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and Dutch Design Week, among others. In 2022, Ilaria co-founded the research and design duo Common Ground Practice. She co-edited They Asked Me to Design a House, I Asked Them to Design a Home (Set Margins’, 2025) and is a 2025 Graham Foundation Grantee.
GEORGINA PANTAZOPOULOU is a multidisciplinary artist, architect, and researcher, currently based between Antwerp and Athens. As a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp in the Faculty of Design Sciences, she is also a member of the Henry van de Velde Research Group. Her work critically examines the contemporary role of domesticity, challenging the legacy of modernism through an intersectional feminist lens. In 2022, Georgina co-founded the research and design duo Common Ground Practice. She co-edited They Asked Me to Design a House, I Asked Them to Design a Home (Set Margins’, 2025) and is a 2025 Graham Foundation Grantee. Her practice spans text, drawings, illustrations, and performances.
PANOS DRAGONAS is an architect, curator, and Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Patras. He studied in Athens (NTUA) and New York (GSAPP, Columbia University) as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2020, he founded Dragonas.Studio in Athens. His award-winning design work has been featured in international exhibitions and publications. He was joint commissioner and curator of Made in Athens (Venice Biennale, 2012) and co-curator of Tomorrows (Athens, 2017; Nantes, 2019), among other exhibitions. His research focuses on the transformation of Greek cities and the intersections of architecture, cinema, and modern urban life, including ongoing studies on Athenian modernity and Takis Zenetos’ Electronic Urbanism.