Home Bound
Home Bound is a critical design project that examines the emotional and behavioural tensions caused by delayed transitions into adulthood. It presents a suite of deliberately disruptive domestic artefacts that mimic the lingering presence of a recently moved out child. They are designed to disrupt, recreating the subtle irritations of cohabitation such as flickering lights, towels that remain damp, and voices that will not stop talking, while withholding the emotional reward of the child’s company.
The interventions respond to the erosion of moving out as a meaningful rite of passage. As economic pressures give rise to the boomerang generation, where young adults leave home only to return, the emotional separation once tied to independence is stretched and destabilised.
Although not intended for domestic use, the artefacts offer real value through provocation and reflection. Home Bound invites parents to reconsider what it means to let go, and to recognise that growing up is not always a clean break, for anyone.
