DOMIE is a communal-artistic-architectural-economic collective-care experiment focused around a ten-year-plan to reclaim a building in downtown Poznań that due to various acts of negligence has been falling into ruin since 1988.

The project’s founders have undertaken the overhaul without any funds of their own, diluting responsibility between various formal and informal entities. In this context, a discourse goes on with the city, the space’s users, and the community that the building has spawned.

DOMIE is 400 square metres of floor space devoted to artistic experiments: studios, exhibition rooms, sound rooms, leisure areas, residential spaces. The building is freely and constantly transformed, becoming an artistic medium and inviting site-specific practices. Those involved in the project consider the refurbishment a form of art, seeking to stretch the category of “capital.” DOMIE is an inclusive space, operating at interfaces and committed to giving a voice to groups underrepresented in public space. It is open to anyone who shares the ideas of openness, regardless of their cultural capital, background, ethnicity, gender, age, or other factors.

DOMIE is a place that requires care, a difficult and terrible place, but one that responds to a sense of uprootedness, chronic nomadism, home crisis, or artistic poverty. Domesticity and property have been exhausted. Now the time has come for post-inhabitation, zombie communities, labile dwellings.

The project was initiated by Martyna Miller and Katarzyna Wojtczak who keep developing it with the DOMIE community.