MAMA

YOUR MAMA

MAMA is a developing spatial practice to whom maintenance matters. This print is your selection of our reflexions presented in the form of a manual. Check our website for more.

Starting in 2015 with the these maintenance as craft, a critical approach of the notion of work to question our relationship with the environment, we believe that maintenance is architecture : an integral part of the designed and built environment that transforms it radically. To act accordingly, we ask ourselves what is maintained when we maintain and practice maintenance as a research method. We develop through storytelling, including research, drawings, writings, workshops, conferences, exhibitions and direct action. We do data analysis and image representation. From the maintenance industry to daily households, all over the wide spectrum of design, architecture and urbanism, MAMA calls for dinner.

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At the entrance of this Brussels apartment we found a "recessed frame" or "mat well" that could be use to accommodate a mat. In …

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At the entrance of this Brussels apartment we found a "recessed frame" or "mat well" that could be use to accommodate a mat. In this case, the mat was missing.

Mat wells help the mat to remain in a specific position as well as to level the upper suface of the mat with the floor, creating a homogenous ground level.

You can find them in a great varaety of materials as well as forms. Today it is very common to find messages witten on the mats, such as: wellcome, wipe your paws, oh no not you again, oh shit you again, nice underwear, no shoes, the neighbours have better stuff, etc.

Door mat works as a barrier, it helps to keep dirt and humidity outside the living area. It hotels, offices, hospital, housing blocks, etc, the mats can be several square meters.

13.12.2019

door barrier Gary please