The Covid-19 lockdowns caused people worldwide to be confined to their homes for longer and on a greater scale than ever before. This forced many unprecedented changes to the way we treat domestic space as relationships shifted between the public and the private worlds, and homes were rapidly adapted to accommodate the additional roles of schools, offices, gyms, restaurants, making-spaces and more. Above all, our understanding of the home as a site to support and enhance the well-being of its inhabitants changed in a variety of novel ways.
Interiors in the Era of Covid is a collection of essays which explore the complex ways in which our inside spaces (contemporary and historical) have responded to Covid-19 and other human crises. With case studies ranging from US and Europe to Japan, China, Colombia, and Bangladesh, this is a truly global work which examines wide-ranging subjects from home-working and home technologies, to the impact of lockdown on people's identities, gender roles in the home, and the realities of domestic living with Covid in refugee camps.
Exploring the roles played by designers (both amateur and professional) in accommodating changing requirements and anticipating future ones whether Covid or beyond this book is a must-read for students and researchers in interior design, architecture, architectural and design history, and anyone interested in the home and the relationships between health and design.
Recenzijas
Addressing interiors from Sweden to Bangladesh, practices from bedroom Zumba to home museology, and sounding echoes from 17th century plagues and 1930s mediascapes, this timely book explores two years in which domestic interiors, everywhere, were transformed, and became an everywhere. * Ed Hollis, Professor of Interior Design, University of Edinburgh, UK * This compelling collection turns the interior during the Covid-19 crisis into a kind of window through which we see beyond the present to a range of historical crises in diverse global locations. The question of domestic arrangement in a seemingly limited space turns into an expansive kaleidoscope of normally veiled ecologies of health, whiteness, hygiene, plants, exercise, media, justice, art, education, advertising, and secrets. * Beatriz Colomina, Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture, Princeton University, USA *
Papildus informācija
Examining the impact of the Covid-19 lockdowns on the domestic interior worldwide.
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Penny Sparke, Ersi Ioannidou, Pat Kirkham, Stephen Knott & Jana Scholze
Section One: Homes, Health and Well-being
Chapter 1: Live Gym Classes at Home: Lea Daan and broadcast body movement in
1930s Belgium - Selin Geerinckx & Els De Vos
Chapter 2: Dancing Across the Threshold: Privacy and the home in the time of
Covid-19 - Alice T. Friedman
Chapter 3: Achieving Well-being in Simple Ways: Cosy, comfortable, and
contented domestic interiors in interwar Vienna - Michelle Jackson-Beckett
Chapter 4: The Quest for Well-being in Japanese Dwellings from the Late
Nineteenth Century to Covid-19 - Izumi Kuroishi
Chapter 5: A Space of their Own: A case-study advocating appropriation of the
domestic interior for well-being - Eliza Sweeney & Sebastian Messer
Section Two: The Unstable Home
Chapter 6: The Re-materialisation of Everyday Life: New aesthetic experiences
of staying at home in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic - Maja Willen
Chapter 7: Room for Independence - Home-based women workers and their
interiors - Fiona Del Puppo & Paule Perron
Chapter 8: Working at Home - Architects during the pandemic in China - Ye Xu,
Katharina Borsi & Jonathan Hale
Chapter 9: From Caseta to Cuarto: The spaces of restorative and
transitional justice in Colombia before and during the Covid-19 pandemic -
Cynthia Hammond, Vanessa Sicotte, Marcela Torres Molano & Greg Labrosse
Chapter 10: Games without Frontiers: Covid living in refugee camps - Mark
Taylor & Iris Levin
Section Three: Representing the (In)visible
Chapter 11: Tell Dont Show: The invisible plague in seventeenth-century
Dutch interior paintings - Irene Cieraad
Chapter 12: Lockdown Portraits: Re-situating the self - Inga Bryden
Chapter 13: Fiction: IKEA's saleable living for pandemic Life - Rebecca
Carrai
Chapter 14: Nice White Spaces: Race and class in domestic cleaning adds
during Covid-19 - Rachele Dini
Chapter 15: Lockdown Uncanny on Display: Muse“e Dom-Ino - Nina Bassoli &
Roberto Gigliotti
Section Four: Collecting the Interior in the era of Covid-19
Chapter 16: Changing Scenes: Image-making, from parlour to screen - Patrick
Lee Lucas
Chapter 17: Shelter in Place Gallery - Eben Haines, Michelle Millar Fisher,
Courtney Harris
Chapter 18: The Domestic Body - Stefania Napolitano
Chapter 19: Interior Archipelago: Postcards from our islands - Lois Weinthal,
Patrick Macklin, Wen Liang, Alice Wenyi Huang
Chapter 20: Stay Home: Rapid response collecting project at the Museum of the
Home - Danielle Patten
Index
Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, UK.
Ersi Ioannidou is Senior Lecturer in Interior Design at Kingston University, UK.
Pat Kirkham is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK.
Stephen Knott is Senior Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston University, UK.
Jana Scholze is Associate Professor and Course Director of the MA Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston University, UK.
