Corridor

Alfian Sa'at

2 ideas

1. The common corridor as semi-public space

   In high-rise public housing, the shared corridor is neither home nor street. Neighbours pass open doors and windows daily, so each household's routines, quarrels and secrets partly leak into view. This thin, involuntary intimacy produces its own customs of watching, ignoring, gossiping and tolerating, which govern how strangers who live side by side relate to each other.

2. National ideology felt through mundane domestic life

   Instead of stating national ideas outright, look for where they surface in small daily acts: what is worn, who shares a lift, which language is spoken at home, how a flat is furnished. Official ideals of multiracial harmony, religious order and family stability show up as small pressures, frictions and compromises in ordinary lives. That is where their real costs and meanings become visible.

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