Dream House Research Articles

“In This Bleak Abyss”: The Speculative Autobiographical Writings of Carmen María Machado and Esmé Weijun Wang

Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House (2019) and Esmé Weijun Wang’s collection The Collected Schizophrenias (2019) are examples of autobiographical writing that incorporate and analyze speculative fiction as part of their retellings of difficult realities. Machado’s memoir of domestic abuse and Wang’s essays about her mental health show that speculative fiction can facilitate the navigation of traumatic events that resist narration. Both texts highlight how autobiographical writing becomes speculative as the author attempts to frame their lived experiences for a broader public, especially when their agencies within their own stories are questioned, either by a gaslighting abuser or by a public stigma against people with schizophrenia. By framing Machado’s memoir and Wang’s essays as speculative autobiographical writings, one can better understand the horrors, fantasies, dreams, and hallucinations that must be told to fully glimpse another’s reality. References to speculative fiction and the narrating of realities that seem unreal highlight speculation’s role in processing, narrating, and surviving trauma.

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) : A Thriving Technology

The term Virtual reality (VR) & Augmented reality (AR) came into existence in the year 1968 by Ivan Sutherland. But, In today’s era it is a technology which has a huge potential to scale in the market. Virtual reality (VR) and Augmented reality (AR) are taking off in almost or soon to be a part of our lives. It could be from creating a 3D video graphic game, e-commerce, marketing or from walking through a dream house to experiencing a walk in beautiful places. Both of these technologies are known for their enriched experience that brings together a virtual world and the real one with enhanced 3D visuals. This technology allows a user to interact with a computer simulated environment, it is the bridge to experience, feeling and touch the past, present and the future virtual world. Today, VR has grown into a new phase and becomes a distinct field in the world of computing. The usability of VR has already been researched in automobile design, robotics, pharmacy, biology, education, as well as in building design. People are quite aware about the term VR/AR but in this paper I will give a detailed introduction on VR, history of VR , its terminology, use cases and its contribution to the thriving technology

Speaking into the Silence: Lesbian Intimate Partner Violence in Carmen Maria Machado’s in the Dream House and a Queer Women’s Archive

In this article, I undertake an investigation of queer women’s archive, that collection of cultural memory which delineates queer women’s identity, and its chronic marginalization regarding narratives of intimate partner abuse. As I find, there exists a notable gap within the queer women’s archive wherein discussions of intimate partner violence are dismissed and diminished. Engaging with this archive’s minimal acknowledgment of intimate partner violence within cultural memories and discourses, I examine how this gap within the literature perseveres, and the efforts memoirs such as Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House have played in rectifying this literary absence. Through a close analysis of Machado’s text and its reception, this paper argues that Machado’s extensive experimentation with memoir form—evident in her use of genre and second person language—forges new methods of understanding queerness and queer abuse. Moreover, this article proposes that Machado’s experimentation with form reveals Dream House’s metatextual tendency to both address and attempt to fill the archival silences within queer cultural memory, in turn creating a space for queer identity to expand. That is, I contend, Machado’s experimentations with memoir form recognize—and demand recognition of—queer abuse in an autobiographical answer to the archive’s absence.

Mr. Blandingsand the Advertisers’ Dream: The Role of Marketing in the Adaptation Process

AbstractThis essay examines the role that marketing played in shaping the audience’s reception and interpretation of Eric Hodgins’ Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (originally published in 1946 as a short story titled ‘Mr. Blandings Builds His Castle’) and its 1948 film adaptation. It argues that while the print versions—modeled after Hodgins’ own unfortunate experience with the housing market before the war—relied on the self-deprecating humour to appeal to urban audiences and ultimately promote caution and frugality, the film adaptation, released at the onset of the suburban sprawl, targeted white families newly entering the middle class and promoted equality through mass consumption mythos. Working in conjunction with its massive advertising campaign that involved the construction of seventy-three replicas of the Blandings’ dream house across the United States, the film adaptation blurred the enormous disparity between Blandings’ dream and the suburban reality of baby boomers by creating new sites of middle-class identification. By reading each adaptation of the original story against the period-specific ideological forces, I demonstrate how marketing, by structuring the audience’s interpretation, shapes the process and the product of adaptation.

‘Queer Villainy’: Carmen Maria Machado’s <i>In the Dream House</i> as Testimony to Lesbian Abuse and Love

Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) are popularly believed to be the exclusive preserve of the heterosexual population. This assumption underpins the fact that policy and interventions aimed at reducing DVA often focus on remediating men’s behaviour so that they become less violent towards women. Such views exclude the fact that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people also experience DVA. This lack of knowledge is partly due to the lack of legitimacy afforded to non-heterosexual relationships. This extends to literary-cultural representations, and there is a particular dearth of texts representing lesbian partnerships. Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir, <i>In the Dream House</i> (2019), fills a gap in literary representations of lesbian relationships, as well as in representations of DVA between same-sex partners. In this article, we read the work as literary scholars, but we do not interpret it as a hermetically sealed work of art with no reference to the world. Instead, we argue that it makes an important contribution, in literary form, to the emerging scholarship on DVA amongst LGBTQ people. We explore how its literary strategies create rich connections with popular culture and give it a place in the queer archive.

STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING MILLENNIAL GENERATION HOUSES WITH SHARIA FINANCIAL PLANNING

Millennials generation find it difficult to own a home because of their consumptive lifestyle and houses have prices that are getting more expensive over time that are disproportionate to their income. In fact, many of them are desperate to buy a house with a credit system with high interest and and that credit has a repayment period up to tens of years, even though this can trigger financial problems. Therefore, this study aims to explain that Islamic financial planning give solution strategies to young people with low incomes can realize to owning their dream house without usury. This type of research is qualitative research with literature study method. The results of this study explain the design of a strategy in managing the income of a young couple for consumption needs, paying for temporary house rent, paying for electricity, water, wifi, emergency funds and investing in sharia instruments namely gold investment. Gold is resistant to inflation. The gold investment strategy of one gram per month can be collected for seven years which can be used to start building a dream house. This research is complemented by a strategy for choosing suitable land to live in and a strategy for building houses with gradual progress for seven years.

The Tales of Bluebeard’s Wives: Carmen Maria Machado’s Intertextual Storytelling in In the Dream House and “The Husband Stitch”

This paper examines the gothic fairy tale in Carmen Maria Machado’s memoir In the Dream House and short story “The Husband Stitch” with a focus on Bluebeard’s insistent presence and the interweaving of reality, gothic horror, and fairy tale. In the memoir, Machado restages her experience of queer intimate partner violence in the form of a gothic fairy tale as “The Queen and the Squid”, reminiscent of the tale of Bluebeard’s latest wife. By including gothic fairy-tale elements in the autobiographical text, Machado blurs the boundaries between the fictional and non-fictional realm, between her story and that of Bluebeard’s latest wife, thereby rewriting the tale for a queer context. The annotation of the memoir using Stith Thompson’s Motif-Index of Folk-Literature further superimposes the fairy tale onto Dream House. Machado’s short story “The Husband Stitch” is a gender-aware inversion of “Bluebeard”. The reappearance of the tale throughout Machado’s work reveals the persistence of abusive behavioral patterns in relationships to the present day. Machado’s intertextual storytelling blurs the lines between autobiographical events and the tale of Bluebeard’s latest wife, creating a shared narrative universe of experiences of women who have dealt with their own iteration of Bluebeard.

Representational Intelligibility and the Confines of Framing the Self: Carmen Maria Machado’sIn the Dream House

ABSTRACTCarmen Maria Machado’s experimental memoir In the Dream House—a haunting account of domestic abuse between partners who share a gender identity—lays out in both explicit and nontraditional ways the problems faced when representing aspects of experience that are deemed culturally unintelligible. Telling her story in this way opens her narrative up to an understanding that could not be had without the fragmentation of form that constitutes both a rejection of and dependence on conventional representations. This article will analyze Machado’s engagement with the specifically narrative and representational obstacles she faces. Ultimately, this article argues that her story gains its power by speaking to the larger issues of violence outside of stereotypically “accepted” cultural narratives, but also that it is only by refracting her story through these framings that she is able to make her narrative of self cohere out the jumble of forces at play.

Dream House Price Predictor

Abstract: The dream house price predictor project aims to build a machine learning model that can predict the selling price of a house based on various features such as location, number of bedrooms, square footage, and other relevant factors. The model will be trained on a dataset of historical housing prices and features, and will use regression techniques to make predictions on new, unseen data. The project will also explore the impact of different features on house prices and provide insights into which factors are the most important in determining the value of a property. The goal of the project is to provide a tool for homebuyers, sellers, and real estate professionals to better understand the market and make informed decisions. The Dream House Price Predictor project is aimed at predicting the prices of residential properties based on various features such as location, size, number of bedrooms, and other amenities. The project uses a dataset of real estate transactions and employs machine learning algorithms to build a predictive model. The model is trained on the historical data and tested on a validation set to ensure its accuracy. The results of the project can be used by real estate agents, property buyers, and sellers to make informed decisions about pricing and investment opportunities. This project demonstrates the potential of machine learning to assist in the real estate market and provides a valuable tool for predicting property prices.

Housing Satisfaction and Preferences Towards Indoor Quality Related to the Environmental Factors in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19 had changed the way we perceived our living environment. As people now spent more time inside, indoor quality especially in terms of environmental factors is considered important in future housing. It is not just one of the indicators for healthy housing, but also green housing. The purpose of this study is to investigate Indonesian’s housing satisfaction and preferences towards indoor quality in terms of environmental factors in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic. The environmental factors indicators used in this study were daylight, air, acoustic, view, and green space quality. This quantitative study used an online questionnaire to collect data. The data analysis compared mean values and gap differences of values for each indicator. The results showed residents were satisfied enough with almost all of the indicators in their current living environment during the pandemic. As for residents’ preferences, daylight quality, air quality, and green space are the top priorities needed to be considered for their dream houses. As for gap differences, it was found that green space, air quality, and acoustic quality needed to be improved, as respondents’ expectations are higher. Understanding housing satisfaction and preferences from the residents’ perspectives in the context of Covid-19 pandemic is considered important, as their demand can motivate developers and other stakeholders to adopt healthy and green building practices. It is hoped that the results of this research can support the studies on future healthy and green housing, especially in terms of environmental factors quality.

The Folks at Home by R. Eric Thomas, and: Dream House by Eliana Pipes (review)

Reviewed by: The Folks at Home by R. Eric Thomas, and: Dream House by Eliana Pipes Natka Bianchini THE FOLKS AT HOME. By R. Eric Thomas. Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb. Baltimore Center Stage, The Pearlstone Theatre, Baltimore. March 27, 2022. DREAM HOUSE. By Eliana Pipes. Directed by Laurie Woolery. Baltimore Center Stage, The Head Theatre, Baltimore. April 28, 2022. In the spring of 2022, Baltimore Center Stage staged back-to-back world premieres of plays written by BIPOC playwrights and featuring multiracial casts and creative teams. Thematically, both pieces centered on the idea of home and what home ownership represents for American families, particularly when applying the lens of race and class to this persistently problematic cornerstone of the American dream. While the productions were not explicitly linked in Center Stage’s promotional materials, the resonance between them was clear and consonant with former Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra’s mission to transform Baltimore Center Stage into a space of radical inclusivity, committed to equity and social justice. First up in this pairing was The Folks at Home by Baltimore native R. Eric Thomas. Thomas is an author, humorist, and writer for stage and screen, who first came to prominence through his hilarious weekly column “Eric Reads the News” published by Elle magazine. His career as a playwright is taking off: in the spring of 2022 he had three major world premieres in quick succession at three different regional theatres, all showcasing his trademark wit and humor. Click for larger view View full resolution Christopher Sears (Brandon), E. Faye Butler (Pamela), Eugene Lee (Vernon), and Jane Kaczmarek (Maureen) in The Folks at Home. Photo: Jill Fannon. The Folks at Home is Thomas’s homage to one of entertainment’s most durable genres—the TV [End Page 97] sitcom. The play is set in the present day, in a Baltimore rowhouse owned by an interracial, married couple, Brandon and Roger Littlefield (Christopher Sears and Brandon E. Burton), who fall on hard times after Roger is laid off from his job as a receptionist at a real estate company. Brandon tends bar at a local seafood joint, but his income alone isn’t enough to keep them afloat, and the play’s conflict centers around how he can convince his husband to list their home for sale and move to a more affordable rental. Into this familiar premise walk Vernon and Pamela Harrison (Eugene Lee and E. Faye Butler, both stellar), Roger’s parents, and Maureen Littlefield (Jane Kaczmarek, wonderfully zany), Brandon’s mother, all of whom are in need of a place to crash. Like their sons, all three aging parents are struggling financially: Vernon and Pamela’s house is in foreclosure, while Maureen, who aspires to work as a greeter at Walmart, has just been evicted by her landlord. Thomas handles this setup with his typical zingers: BRANDON: Look, I’m trying to build something with you. ROGER: We did build something. We have a home. And we filled it with old people. ROGER: We built a nursing home. Once they manage to pay the overdue cable bill, the television in the Littlefield home is switched on—and stays on in the background. The audience at the Center Stage production heard snippets of The Jeffersons, Family Matters, and The Cosby Show between scenes. The aural linkages between the quippy one-liners of Thomas’s play, and the inter-generational television sitcoms on which those jokes are based, were clear. Layered within the comedy, however, was Thomas’s more nuanced exploration of race and class in twenty-first century America. Despite achieving the American dream’s promise of homeownership, Roger and Brandon are still living paycheck to paycheck. Vernon and Pamela both work, but it took just one medical catastrophe (there is an oblique reference to cancer, and the hospital having them on a payment plan) to put them out on the street. In one particularly poignant scene, Pamela talks with her son on the back patio one evening, telling him: “Your father and I are going to have to work til we die, but who isn’t?” I appreciated Thomas’s focus here on economics, while the fact of Brandon...

Anti-Work Architecture: Domestic Labour, Speculative Design, and Automated Plenty

Abstract This article presents a partial history of visions of technodomesticity in the global north, concentrating on dwellings which seek to problematize, challenge, or reorganize unpaid household labour. It is structured around three case studies, primarily drawn from the United States in the 1950s and 1960s: the single-family suburban dream house, the bachelor pad, and the fully automated future home. While these chosen examples may lend us certain resources for thinking about how best to mitigate the challenges of reproductive labour via living arrangements, they also possess a number of clear drawbacks or limitations. The article will argue that contesting these imaginaries (as much as learning from them) is likely to prove necessary in unpicking the connections between an inequitable distribution of unpaid intrafamilial domestic labour and the house itself as both a concrete site and an ideological formation – necessary, that is to say, in terms of building a meaningfully feminist conception of anti-work architecture.

The Unlikely Heroine beyond Family Trauma: Four Women’s Fictions of the Second World War in Greece

My analysis of Victoria Hislop’s The Island (2005), Leah Fleming’s The Girl under the Olive Tree (2013), Sofka Zinovieff’s The House on Paradise Street (2012), and Brenda Reid’s The House of Dust and Dreams (2010) examines their treatment of the exotic setting of Greece in the specific historical context of World War II, while following the conventions of popular romance or popular women’s fiction. As a consequence of the conflict, the traditional family structure is compromised. This is particularly evident in the case of the female protagonists, heroines who refuse to fall within the traditional happyever-after ending and opt for a fulfilling career, a longfelt vocation, singlehood or simply unusual friendships of their choice. As a result, even in novels categorized as “romances”, the presence of a hero or lover is questioned and redefined. My analysis starts with Victoria Hislop’s The Island, a historical narrative of the leper colony at Spinalonga, around the time of the Second World War. For comparative purposes regarding the treatment of popular fiction elements, Brenda Reid’s The House of Dust and Dreams and Leah Fleming’s The Girl under the Olive Tree are discussed as being more generically romantic. Finally, Sofka Zinovieff’s The House on Paradise Street offers an example of a cohesive, compact combination of political confrontation and popular romance, while at the same time England appears as the counterpoint to the exoticism of Greece.

Interpreting the Placeness of Scavenger Children through Dream Houses Images

Home and neighborhood are sight that are attached to the memory of every child and will provide a different experience for each of them. A child who lives in a city has a different experience of space from one who lives in a village, as well as those who live by the river and those who live on the edge of the railroad tracks. This study aims to trace the meaning of placeness for children in suburbs with weak economic conditions and still living in non-permanent homes. Placeness will be tracked through the resulting image. The method used is observation and interpretation. Observations are done by looking at the condition of the house and the surrounding environment, then giving instructions and facilities for children to draw a house according to their dreams. The drawing process is observed with minimal guidance so that children can be more free, imaginative, and creative in producing drawings. After that, the drawings were collected and asked each child to explain its meaning, the child's explanation was added with a description of the interpretation using a content analysis approach. Research showed that each child draws a dream house that is different from the house they live in, the drawing of the house is made permanent, larger and mostly multi-storey (two floors), there is a river, a swimming pool, with trees and flowers around it and a picture of the sun and clouds in the background. This phenomenon is the condition of the environment that is close to his house, rivers, various luxury two-story housing, swimming pools and the sun and clouds are common objects and are always present every day in children's lives.

Respite. Quiet. A House of Dreams.

Respite. Quiet. A House of Dreams.

The Idioms and Culture-Specific Items Translation Strategy for a Classic Novel

A translator must have a thorough grasp of a language and its culture in order to determine the most appropriate interpretation while being true to the culture's intent. They must understand the translation technique and category to maintain consistency while translating cultural texts such as idioms and culture-specific items. This study explored translation procedures for idioms and culture-specific items, as well as their categories, in light of these considerations. The researcher did a descriptive qualitative study utilizing two instruments from Lucy M. Montgomery's original novel "Anne's House of Dreams," which was first published in 1917 and had 275 pages. Meanwhile, Maria M. Lubis released a 275-page Indonesian translation in 1998. According to the findings, there were 146 data points for idioms and 26 data points for culture-specific things. The most common translation approach utilized was Translation by Paraphrase, and the least common was Translation by Omission, according to the initial statistics on idioms. Meanwhile, the second set of data on Culture-specific Items revealed that Transfer was the most regularly utilized translation approach, while Deletion was the least. Finally, the most often used category for classification was Ecology. Overall, we believe that this study will aid readers in comprehending translation.

Editorial: The Politics of Performing House: Transnational Perspectives

Asking, What is the relationship between housing and performance?, editors Laura Levin and Sunita Nigam insist that the lines between the two begin to blur when we attend to the aesthetic and embodied dimensions of housing, on the one hand, and the homely, spatial, and thematic concerns of certain performances, on the other. Considering contexts of housing crises, shortages, and discrimination, the editors argue that houses of all kinds must be treated as processual, performative practices and as intended and unintended displays that reveal much about the material contexts in which they are embedded. As important zones for the realization, rehearsal, thwarting, or abandonment of private and collective fantasies, all houses are ‘dream houses,’ whether these dreams be good or bad. Levin and Nigam make a case for paying attention to aesthetic references, movement vocabularies, narratives about housing, scripts for housing practices, and the gendering and racializing of certain roles—all aspects of ‘practising house’—that make spaces (real and imagined) meaningful for those who perform them and spectate them. They argue for the importance of reading housing practices both in relation to local conditions and through transnational and hemispheric frameworks, asserting that the performative politics of housing brings into view shared experiences of dwelling, citizenship, and belonging that cross—and, more crucially, contest—geopolitical borders. In doing so, they emphasize how housing practices are haunted by the rupture that colonization created with existing Indigenous modes of dwelling, especially as a consequence of establishing settler-colonial territory and domestic spaces.

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts

House Price Prediction Using Regression

Abstract: The housing sector is the second largest employment provider after agriculture sector in India and is estimated to grow at 30% over the next decade. Housing is one of the major sectors of real estate and is well complemented by the growth of the urban and semi-urban accommodations. Ambiguity among the prices of houses makes it difficult for the buyer to select their dream house. The interest of both buyers and sellers should be satisfied so that they do not overestimate or underestimate price. Our system provides a decisive housing price prediction model to benefit a buyer and seller or a real estate agent to make a better-informed decision system on multiple features. To achieve this, various features are selected as input from feature set and various approaches can be taken such as Regression Models or ANN. Keywords: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Supervised Machine Learning, Regression, Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

Model for Increasing Micro and Small Enterprises Performance through Optimizing the Role of BUMDes

The micro and small enterprises (MSEs) performance inequality between districts/cities is a must-be-solved problem since inequality is one of the issues concerned in the Sustainable Development Goals. Much previous research on the role of Village-Owned Enterprises (Badan Usaha Milik Desa—BUMDes) performance revealed that BUMDes had a positive but not significant role. The reason is that BUMDes had not played an optimal role. This study aimed at building a model for improving the performance of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) through optimizing the role of BUMDes. The data collected was primary data consisting of the causes of low MSEs performance, challenges, and opportunities for optimizing the role of BUMDes in improving MSE performance. Data were collected through a structured interview, in-depth interview, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) methods. The results revealed that the model for improving MSEs' performance through optimizing the role of BUMDes was named the Dream House Model. This model requires that MSEs set a dream of experiencing a performance improvement that was set within three years. The main pillar in achieving this dream was that MSEs should revitalize and collaborate.