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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“In 1907, the French, doctor Hericourt, observed: " Dry sweeping and dusting are homicidal practices: they consist of taking dust which has been lying on …

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“In 1907, the French, doctor Hericourt, observed: " Dry sweeping and dusting are homicidal practices: they consist of taking dust which has been lying on the floor and on the furniture, mixing it in the atmosphere, and causing it to be swallowed and inhaled by the inhabitants of the house. In reality, it would be preferable to leave the dust alone where it is."

Mind Your Manors: Tried-and-True British Household Cleaning Tips By Lucy Lethbridge

Video documentary of “ The Secret Life of Machines - Vacuum cleaners”

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You’re supposed to clean your house. People expect that your house is clean. Sometimes I wonder what it would feel like just to …

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You’re supposed to clean your house. People expect that your house is clean. Sometimes I wonder what it would feel like just to let it go, and live like that. How would it be? Because sometimes I do not make my bed for several days, right? I get in, and I can feel the blanket is all bundled. And I'm thinking, It’s not that bad, you kind of find a space, and...it’s not nice, but it’s not dirty. Because we’ll wash it, anyway. So it’s not unsanitary. And I think, How would it be, just to let it go?

The drawing represents a work produced by Tracey Emin, "My bed", first showed in 1998.

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