Making Oddkin 2.0

2024  I  GRASSI MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS LEIPZIG

A PHYSICAL NARRATIVE TO EXPERIENCE DOMESTIC LIFE IN A MULTISPECIES FLATSHARE

production
interactive website, booklet, table, lamp, climbing aid, door knob, wall paper, first aid vaccination box

commissioned by
GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig, under the curation of Silvia Gaetti

on show at
FUTURES. Material und Design of Tomorrow, GRASSI MAK, Leipzig (DE), 2024

supported by
Federal Ministry of the Republic of Austria (BMKOES)
Bildrecht GmbH

photography
Esther Hoyer

object production
Der Prototyp / Bernhard Ranner
Möbelmanufaktur J. PEHACK

Making Oddkin 2.0 – The Home in 2025 is a spatial installation based on the digital artwork Making Oddkin, an architectural proposal in which humans share their built environments with invasive species as well as both wild and domesticated animals. The project is inspired by Donna Haraway’s book Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Haraway coined the term “Making Oddkin” to describe the need for unexpected collaborations and combinations between humans and non-humans.

In this immersive, walk-in installation, an alternative version of the home manifests through objects that tell stories of domestic cohabitation with animals such as pigs, crows, and raccoons.

Here, the unfamiliar meets the familiar. Appearing slightly "off," this home embodies ideas expressed in a hybrid space between draft and material. Interiors blend into the walls, dissolving into illustrative two-dimensionality and leaving open the question of what is—or should become—“real.” The audience is invited to explore. By opening kitchen cabinets and browsing through home magazines, visitors will notice: a different standard of design applies to the furnishings in this home—one that leaves Le Corbusier’s Modulor outdated, replaced by criteria considering more than the default (hu)man.

In The Home in 2025, you will find doorknobs mounted at heights accessible to pigs and raccoons, while holes in the walls allow crows to come and go without obstruction. An inclusive table invites animals and humans to eat together, featuring several multi-species design elements: a built-in water bowl for the raccoon, and a snout-height section allowing the pig to join the meal. The domestic environment becomes a space of imagination—a place for unusual encounters—where we live together with other creatures, at times in symbiosis, at others simply in mutual agreement.

HOME IN 2025 TREND MAGAZINE

MULTISPECIES FURNITURE TRENDS

THE PIG MODULOR, A HACKED VERSION OF LE CORBUSIER'S ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURING SYSTEM CENTERING THE MALE BODY