14.5.2026 Living Room

Visual anthropologist Caterina Sartori presents her interactive documentary Living Room (UK / 2025).

Living Room is a multimodal interactive documentary developed as part of the author's anthropological doctoral research into the demolition of a modernist public housing estate in London. The residents of the estate are threatened with the demolition of their homes as part of an urban regeneration programme. Many refuse the plan and organise against it, on the streets, in the courts of law, and in their homes. The i-doc foregrounds the experiences and activism of low-income, racialised residents who resist demolition and asks how everyday life is shaped and reshaped under structural violence, dispossession and gentrification. The i-doc allows users to navigate five thematic strands in non-linear order, from legal struggles and housing occupations to media, architecture and homemaking, reflecting the open-ended nature of residents’ refusal.

As part of the lunchtime session, Caterina will provide a short, guided screening of the i-doc followed by a discussion about her approach towards engaged methodologies and non-linear documentary making.

Website: Living Room: An Interactive Documentary