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This article builds on a developing interdisciplinary discussion of home. It studies two 20th-century texts in counterpoint: political philosopher Agnes Heller's essay, `Where Are We at Home,' and novelist Melpo Axioti's My Home, a nostalgic recollection of life on Mykonos. Heller contrasts the elusive, self-appointed geography of postmodern living with a traditional view of primordial dwelling, a non-transient way of dwelling that gave to Earth a commitment stretching from ancestral past to a distant future. That experience is all but lost today, Heller muses as she surveys the horizon for space-bound alternatives to today's geographic promiscuity. The closing paragraph of her essay, which settles inconclusively on a Mediterranean landscape, opens a portal to My Home, the work of another political exile deprived of nationality and citizenship during the Cold War. Axioti's postmodern novel juxtaposes native stories of a transient life on Mykonos with the modern developer's efforts to discover firm foundations for building and an exile's wish to recover solid memories of home. Between those perspectives, Mykonos comes alive as a different type of home, in which obligation forms a bridge between presence and absence. The article closes by inquiring whether a thoughtful look at fragile Mediterranean worlds might reintroduce the idea of obligation to postmodern conceptions of home.

Willkommen im hybriden Heim. Das Bad wird zum Wellnesstempel, das Wohnzimmer zur Online-Couch neben der Wohnküche. Alles wirkt aufgeräumt und chic, perfekt zu posten. Im Instagram-Zeitalter mutieren selbst Mikrowohnungen zu halböffentlichen Orten. SZ-Autor Oliver Herwig beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit dem Wandel von Wohnräumen und Wohnträumen. In diesem Buch porträtiert er zugleich eine Gesellschaft im digitalen Wandel. Unsere vier Wände verschwimmen zu temporären Vielzweck-Arbeits-Spaß-und-Multimedia-Räumen, das Büro dringt ins Zuhause vor und die smarte Einkaufswelt ist mittels Alexa und Co nur ein Wort entfernt. Nichts will mehr passen. Doch alles muss Platz haben. Willkommen im hybriden Heim.

Researchers participating in the development and training week of one of the European Union's Erasmus+ projects come forwards in this contribution and share their insights. Youth engaged in integration of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers were to be trained, their approaches made visible and their networking strengthened in a two-year project that included a seven-days get-together in Croatia. Further activities included ample desk research of relevant initiatives, dissemination conferences in the participating countries (England, Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Croatia), a research report, and a collection of training modules. A definite goal was to address and to counter rising tensions in EU countries regarding refugee and migration movements.