Dogma

The Opposite Shore

Suburbs are arguably one of the most controversial legacies of the twentieth century. They embody a way of life driven by property and heteronormative family values. The most important feature of the suburbs was the strict separation of life and work and the full privatization of domestic labour as the housewife’s responsibility. Suburbs in Europe today are in steep decline as both social and environmental constructs. Opposite Shore is a research and project that challenges the status of suburbs and rethinks their future as cooperative settlements. Opposite Shore is composed of an historical critique of suburbanization in Belgium (walls) and a project for its future (models).