To Home

A live archive collecting evidence of homing practices, small acts through which people make themselves at home, from participants around the world.

Home is a verb, not a noun. To Home is a design research project investigating the practices through which people constitute a sense of home, such as the rituals, habits, and spatial relations that make a place feel inhabited. Grounded in Paolo Boccagni's five homing dimensions, the project gathers responses from participants via a Telegram bot and surfaces them as a growing live archive.

Participants enter via QR code printed on postcards inside the canopy installation and on physical letters sent to long-term research participants. They respond through a structured Telegram bot across five modules, sending text, photographs, or voice notes. Each response is automatically logged to Google Sheet and immediately visible in the archive.

The website reads the sheet directly, with no backend, displaying the full collection with filters by city, country, housing situation, duration, module, and content type. It is built to feel like a collection of letters.