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Book SynopsisThe 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
Table of ContentsIllustrations 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 Don’t 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
