
Starting from these issues, this enquiry aims to explore the domestic space of common people living in Milan: people you can meet in the street, or along a subway line, near one of its stops. That's way the first tool chosen for this exploration is actually the use of a subway line (the line 2, the nearest to the NABA) as a random and transversal crossing line to sample the whole urban territory, from the suburb to the center, still to the suburb, using some of the stops to localize a series of interviews, to residents and users of the area.
Given the subway line as the trace to follow in order to make a tranche de ville of Milan, the other main strategy proposed to enter the domestic landscape is the dialogue, or the interview, based on a series of questions to invite people to tell about themselves. Together with this first way of approaching to the dwelling space (a sort of indirect look but from within as produced by the dwellers themselves), three other approaches based on collecting pieces of evidence (a sort of look from outside) will be used: looking at the home's windows (what can we see literally looking at what appears on the outside?), at the shops' windows (what do furniture shops tell us?), and at the images (what do magazines tell about homes?).
The aim of this research is to produce a knowledge about dwelling through a practice of listening and collecting of informations directly on the city's ground, starting from the dwellers' words, activating different forms of inquiry that, without violating the intimacy of the subjective territory, could create an overview on the main issues of the contemporary living. Starting point is the human voice, the hand-to-hand of the dialogue, of the questioning and telling, of the listening to the lived space. The goal would be words, objects, concepts, forms of the contemporary living.