This Experts Meeting, sponsored by STI and organized by The Home Renaissance Foundation, considered the home from various perspectives: public health; philosophy of science; law; sociology; human geography; philosophy, ethics and anthropology; and economics.
Human beings have been creating home environments for thousands of years. It is part of their culture and of their story: both its source and memory. A deeper understanding of what a home is, and why everybody looks for a home, can help us to identify the right categories to understand relationships and their relevance in society. We thus seek to explore the epistemological and ontological status of the home in structuring human behavior and social capacities. This understanding will help us overcome reductionist accounts of the home and of the work that is performed in that environment (i.e. merely functional). New categories should consequently be identified as they have often been in the fields of sociology, biology, etc.
