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.
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 *