Chapter 1: Introduction: On Doing Homing Interviews¹

This book is a collection of interviews about home. Why ask people about that, in the first place? What is the merit of a question on home, what does it say about the interviewee (and the interviewer), what kind of knowledge does it produce?

Talking with someone about home means opening up a large and rather indeterminate field of conversation. This embraces the place where people live, but also the place(s), beings or things they feel that matter(ed) the most, or that they would like to matter the most, for them. There is little obvious or straightforward in this endeavour.