Interiors in the Era of Covid-19: Interior Design between the Public and Private Realms

"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."-- Provided by publisher Cover Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Introduction Penny Sparke, Ersi Ioannidou, Pat Kirkham, Stephen Knott, Jana Scholze SECTION ONE Homes, health and well-being 1 Live gym classes at home: Lea Daan and broadcast body movement in 1930s Belgium Selin Geerinckx and Els de Vos 2 Dancing across the threshold: Privacy and the home in the time of Covid-19 Alice T. Friedman 3 Achieving well-being in simple ways: Cosy, comfortable and contented domestic interiors in interwar Vienna Michelle Jackson-Beckett 4 The quest for health and well-being in Japanese homes from late nineteenth century to Covid-19 Izumi Kuroishi 5 A space of their own: A case study advocating appropriation of the domestic interior for well-being Eliza Sweeney and Sebastian Messer SECTION TWO The unstable home 6 The re-materialization of everyday life: New aesthetic experiences of staying at home in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic Maja Willén 7 Room for independence: Home-based women workers and their interiors Fiona Del Puppo and Paule Perron 8 Working at home: Architects during the pandemic in China Ye Xu, Katharina Borsi and Jonathan Hale 9 From Caseta to Cuarto: The spaces of restorative and transitional justice in Colombia before and during the Covid-19 pandemic Cynthia Imogen Hammond, Greg Labrosse, Vanessa Sicotte and Marcela Torres Molano 10 Games without frontiers – Covid living in refugee camps Mark Taylor and Iris Levin SECTION THREE Representing the (in)visible 11 Tell don’t show: The invisible plague in Dutch seventeenth-century paintings of the domestic interior Irene Cieraad 12 Lockdown portraits: Resituating the self Inga Bryden 13 Fiction: IKEA’s saleable living for pandemic life Rebecca Carrai 14 Nice white spaces: Race and class in domestic cleaning ads during Covid-19 Rachele Dini 15 Uncanny on display: Musée Dom-Ino. A virtual museum of domesticity in lockdown Nina Bassoli and Roberto Gigliotti SECTION FOUR Collecting the interior in the era of Covid-19 16 Changing scenes: Image-making from parlour to screen Patrick Lee Lucas 17 Shelter in Place Gallery: Exhibiting contemporary art and creating community in a pandemic Michelle Millar Fisher, Eben Haines and Courtney Harris 18 The Domestic Body Stefania Napolitano 19 Interior Archipelago – postcards from our islands Lois Weinthal, Patrick Macklin, Wen Liang and Alice Huang 20 Stay Home – rapid response collecting project at the Museum of the Home Danielle Patten Index