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.
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Examining the impact of the Covid-19 lockdowns on the domestic interior worldwide.
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Introduction |
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SECTION ONE Homes, health and well-being |
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1 Live gym classes at home: Lea Daan and broadcast body movement in 1930s Belgium |
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2 Dancing across the threshold: Privacy and the home in the time of Covid-19 |
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3 Achieving well-being in simple ways: Cosy, comfortable and contented domestic interiors in interwar Vienna |
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4 The quest for health and well-being in Japanese homes from late nineteenth century to Covid-19 |
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5 A space of their own: A case study advocating appropriation of the domestic interior for well-being |
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SECTION TWO The unstable home |
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6 The re-materialization of everyday life: New aesthetic experiences of staying at home in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic Maja Willen |
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7 Room for independence: Home-based women workers and their interiors |
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8 Working at home: Architects during the pandemic in China |
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9 From Caseta to Quarto: The spaces of restorative and transitional justice in Colombia before and during the Covid-19 pandemic |
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10 Games without frontiers - Covid living in refugee camps |
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SECTION THREE Representing the (in)visible |
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11 Tell don't show: The invisible plague in Dutch seventeenth-century paintings of the domestic interior |
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12 Lockdown portraits: Resituating the self |
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13 Fiction: IKEA's saleable living for pandemic life |
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14 Nice white spaces: Race and class in domestic cleaning ads during Covid-19 |
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15 Uncanny on display: Musee Dom-Ino. A virtual museum of domesticity in lockdown |
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SECTION FOUR Collecting the interior in the era Of COVid-19 |
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16 Changing scenes: Image-making from parlour to screen |
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17 Shelter in Place Gallery: Exhibiting contemporary art and creating community in a pandemic |
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19 Interior Archipelago - postcards from our islands |
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20 Stay Home - rapid response collecting project at the Museum of the Home |
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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.