Drawing and Dwelling:
British Asian Space and Heritage
2023
Sector: Exhibition
Location: Winter Garden, Sheffield
Time: 30th October to 6th November 2023
This exhibition presents three architectural design research projects for three ordinary British Asian families in three northern cities: House M (built in Manchester in 2019), House L (built in Sheffield in 2020), and House Y (to be built in Rotherham in 2024).
The drawings and models trace and translate the ways the three British Asian families use and move around their domestic space and landscape in their everyday lives, narratives and imaginations.
Together, they illustrate how British Asian heritage influenced spatial use and explore architecture’s important relation to the underrepresented ethnic minority spaces in the multicultural north of England.
The exhibition offers an architectural-anthropological insight about British Asian’s complex socio-spatial realities, experiences and perspectives of their space, heritage, and broader inclusion into British society. It is one of the first architectural exhibitions of its kind.
