Anqi Liu

How might permanent nomadism give rise to new states of being? 

It is the year 2040, and new laws on nomadism have been passed where home can be anywhere. CELAND is an micronation that claims the Charleston estate as part of its territory. The nation stages and celebrates notions of privacy as the possibility of freedom.

In the future, the boundaries between work and domestic life are no longer clearly defined. And privacy doesn’t mean being alone in a space, it is a critique on the idea of co-inhabiting, and collective dwelling. The existence of micro-society challenge domestication of society; the patriarchal logic of domestic space, and modern neighbourhood ecology.

Using tent as the housing typology, spaces are self-sufficient, shared ownership, liberation from gender roles, blurring the boundaries between private and public, live and work, sleep and eat. The proposal allows people who can’t afford to rent or own a property to be in the state of ‘permanent nomadism’.

Anqi Liu is an interior designer who is constantly interested at the field of architecture and art. Enjoys seeing/creating/reading about art, spatial design, installation art, and architecture. Based in China, HK and the UK. 

She want to explore on one of the basic human requirements – to dwell, and one of the central human acts – to inhabit. We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind. Prompted by the post-pandemic situation, it is worth discussing how minimum dwelling and flexible living could be redefined in the near-future. 2040 is a future of flexibility, a world where people can live in the state of ‘permanent nomadism’, unlike other micronations CELAND is a community that live a life of self-sufficiency and flexibility. The proposal question how can we envisage and redesign the nature of domestic space in a new era of nomadic living.