Domestic Wilderness is a docufiction film about ecology. It is an uncanny and surreal voyage into the universe of our homes and objects. Becoming ecological is being aware of the complexity of events surrounding us regarding their appearance and performance. Yet, to Latour, environmental action is insufficient due to society's disconnect between the scale of climate change phenomena and its events. This thesis will look for the opposite - the connectivity, a relationship among human, non-human, and non-lifeforms actors. This thesis's primary goal is to explore how we could dwell in the future through the notion of domesticity and wilderness.

The domestic landscape is being terraformed through various factors. These factors could derive from synthetic or organic objects. As a result, home becomes a place of wilderness, where dwelling conditions change continuously. The artificial climate in each room is different. Weather is in constant flux, affecting the living and non-living objects that cohabit the space. Unintentionally, the house converts into a laboratory for architectural speculations revealing new modes of habitation. From a clean and sterile environment, the home turns into a messy and porous world without borders, where understanding coincidental and intentional connectivity plays a prominent role in living. For example, a robotic elephant picks up flowers, extracts their oils, and produces soap for a shower among flowers. With its trunk, the elephant carries out its morning duties by showering human beings with flowers surrounding it. Nevertheless, the dwelling is not falling apart. Quite the opposite, the landscape becomes a hybrid of organic and artificial matter. I believe anyone should design their domestic ecosystem. Here, the architect creates a climate and its organisms by terraforming new domestic landscapes by overlapping natural and artificial.

SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis 2022 by Jure Zibret