{"id":7009,"date":"2026-04-13T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:23:54","slug":"dropcity-exhibition-explores-the-performative-architecture-of-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/dropcity-exhibition-explores-the-performative-architecture-of-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropcity exhibition explores the “performative architecture” of the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students at the Italian university Politecnico di Milano have created an exhibition at Dropcity<\/a> design centre that explores the political symbolism of the White House<\/a> through its interior design for Milan design week 2026<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The White House: Domestic Propaganda includes models, furniture references, visual archives, reconstructions, and diagrams produced by more than 50 students that explore “the White House as a domestic interior and a political device”.<\/p>\n

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Students at the Politecnico di Milano have created an exhibition at Dropcity that explores its political symbolism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The exhibition was curated and designed by the students of the Interior Design Studio at the Politecnico di Milano<\/a>, which is led by Davide Fabio Colaci and Lola Ottolini.<\/p>\n

“The exhibition explores how the White House, beyond being a residence, has gradually become a powerful symbolic and anthropological device,” said the team. “A performative architecture that intertwines intimacy, representation, and media democracy.”<\/p>\n

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Seven installations explore different domestic elements of the White House<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“It is not only a place of dwelling but also a machine of representation capable of staging an idea of society through its spaces, objects, and rituals.”<\/p>\n

The exhibition consists of seven main installations dispersed throughout the tunnel exhibition space at Dropcity<\/a>. Each is focused on different domestic elements of the White House, from the liminal spaces inhabited by the service staff to gifts received by US presidents throughout history.<\/p>\n

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The installations focus on everything from service spaces to gifts received by US presidents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The projects are displayed on metal shelves, spread across the floor or placed on plinths.<\/p>\n

This includes the large “oval carpet” in the centre of the space that reinterprets the leisure activities of each president and their family.<\/p>\n

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They are spread out on shelving and plinths<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It translates these hobbies into patterns or symbols in order to create “a domestic surface”.<\/p>\n

“Leisure Carpet reinterprets presidential leisure as a space of negotiation,” said the team. “Inside the White House, the free time of the president and their family becomes part of a political choreography.”<\/p>\n