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Interiors in the Era of Covid-19

Interior Design between the Public and Private Realms

Penny Sparke Dr Ersi Ioannidou Pat Kirkham Stephen Knott

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English
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
20 April 2023
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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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781350294226
ISBN 10:   1350294225
Pages:   312
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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

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 *


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