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“[E]xpressly Meant to Promote the Formation of the Domestic Virtues”: Domestic Interiors and Household Furnishings in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Houliang Chen, Danni Wu
Building on recent scholarship about the cultural significance of material life in the nineteenth century, this article attends to Charles Dickens’s representation of domestic interiors and househo...
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Home Alone: Negotiating Domestic Life by Young Urban Solo Dwellers in Berlin and Seoul During the COVID-19 Pandemic1 Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Seonju Kim, Jörg Stollmann
Not only isolation but also the expansion of digital social connectivity have led to radical changes in young urban solo dwellers’ everyday life at home in the pandemic. Comparing Berlin and Seoul,...
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The ottoman women’s transformative agency: from traditional to modern interiors Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Gülen Çevik
Abstract While scholars have studied the significance of the press in the process of modernization of the Ottoman Empire in general terms, the effects of women’s periodicals on domestic architecture and design have not been adequately investigated. In the Tanzimat period (Reorganization) (1839–1876), some two thousand weekly and monthly newspapers and periodicals were published. Affordable press and
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“…We Honestly Just Got Sick of Doing Working Together.” Spatial Negotiation of Adult-Child Thrown togetherness During Lockdown Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Alkistis Pitsikali, Heba Sarhan, Husam Abo Kanon, Sandra Costa Santos, Rosie Parnell, Emily Pattinson
Abstract Following a pre-pandemic decline in family time at home, the Royal Institute of British Architects called for multi-functional living spaces to become the new family social hub, where familial togetherness materializes. However, a deeper understanding of the family home as a socio-spatial system, shaped by the negotiation of values, is required to inform housing design. This article draws
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Globalising Housework: Domestic Labour in Middle-Class London Homes: 1850–1914 Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Yvonne McFadden
Published in Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2023)
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From Function to Fantasy in the New American Home Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Kelcie Vercel
Abstract In this paper, I describe one dimension of the semiotic space constituting “the home.” Using the case of a prominent annual show home in the United States—The New American Home—I reveal the centrality of a Real/Ideal dichotomy in the cultural meanings deployed by homebuilders as they explain their construction decisions. Over time, shifting priorities among the builders of The New American
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Making Sense of Home Among Ethnic Minority Older Adults: Experiences of Aging in Place Among the Turkish Community in London Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Melisa Yazdanpanahi, Ryan Woolrych
Abstract The importance of home in constructing notions of identity, self, and belonging is well recognized in the aging in place literature. However, much of the research has focused on mainstream population groups, rather than on the experiences of ethnic minority communities, whose lifecourse trajectories may reveal one of transience in relation to place, aging and home. Based on 48 semi-structured
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How Houses Move Us: Atmospheric Practices in The Professor’s House (1925) Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Tine Sommer
Abstract This article explores the representation of lived life in the house in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House (1925). It uncovers how the house moves bodies and affects moods that create individual meaning but also reflect broader responses to modernity. The article argues, in line with recent architectural scholarship, that literature, especially “middlebrow” fiction that would reach a large
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There is a Garden in her Face: The Georgic O’Keeffe Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Cristiana Pagliarusco
Abstract “The cooking has been done for you in the garden; it’s merely finished in the kitchen,” the English biodynamic gardener Alan Chadwick used to say. These were ideas that Georgia O’Keeffe, the American modernist painter, already had in mind when she decided to devote large attention to the creation of vegetable and fruit gardens in her houses in New Mexico between the 1930s and 1940s. When Chadwick
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Homely Orderings in Times of Stay-At-Home Measures Home Cultures Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Susanna Azevedo, Raphaela Kohout, Ana Rogojanu, Georg Wolfmayr
Abstract The stay-at-home measures imposed by governments to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic have drawn attention to the domestic sphere. Besides spending much more time at home in general, people also required the private sphere to fulfill multiple functions, including as workplaces, schools, and fitness centers. Within a qualitative social research framework, the paper examines how people in Vienna
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The Battle of the Balconies—Scandinavian Sameness and Urban-Domestic Boundaries Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Marie Stender
Abstract Urban-domestic boundaries mediate social relations and encounters between the private and public spheres. Recent literature stresses that such boundaries are fluid rather than fixed and that, despite the physical layers that divide domestic space from urban space, domestication can occur everywhere in urban space. In this article, I build on such dynamic approaches to domestication, but by
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THE SMART HOME: AN EXPLORATION OF HOW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES HAVE INFLUENCED INTERIOR. Design VISIONS FROM THE LAST CENTURY TILL TODAY Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Barry Curtis
Published in Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space (Vol. 19, No. 2, 2022)
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The Home in the Digital Age Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Chiara Lecce
Published in Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space (Vol. 19, No. 2, 2022)
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“Open” and “Closed” Homes: Sustainability and the Aesthetic Ecologies of Things Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Florencia Muñoz, Tomás Errázuriz, Ricardo Greene
Abstract This article explores the relationship between the aesthetic ecologies of homes in different socioeconomic sectors, and their disposition towards conserving or discarding objects. More specifically, it analyses how domestic practices, the ways homes are produced and maintained, can impinge on a greater or lesser propensity towards sustainable forms of life. Based on qualitative work carried
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Live Gym Classes At Home Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Selin Geerinckx, Els De Vos
Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic has forced people worldwide to stay home for long periods. Dance schools and sports clubs have organized online courses. Homes have thus become a stage for body movements. Although online gym classes seem like a new phenomenon, they had a predecessor in the radio gym classes of the 1930s. Belgian dancer Lea Daan (1906–1995), schooled in modern dance by German choreographer
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Living with Smoke: A Fluid Domestic Environment Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Kristanti Dewi Paramita, Yandi Andri Yatmo, Diandra Pandu Saginatari
Abstract This article examines the experiences of living with smoke in the context of traditional domestic food-smoking enterprises. Smoke is largely discussed in architectural discourse as a pollutant that must be removed from the built environment. This article argues that the investigation of traditional food-smoking practices potentially shifts such discussions, positioning smoke as a driver of
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A Non-Schismogenic Approach to Housing Policy in İStanbul Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Esen Gökçe ÖZdamar
Abstract This article aimed to develop a new, experimental approach to housing by investigating dwellers’ perceptions in Turkey through an experimental art project called Okkito, which is a parody of TOKI (Housing Development Administration). Using artistic and transdisciplinary research methodology, Okkito revealed a non-schismogenic pattern in housing, a term derived from the anthropologist Gregory
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Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975 Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Patrizio M. Martinelli Reviewd by
Published in Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2022)
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‘The Food Package Makes My Hands Dirty Now’: Exploring Domestic Cleaning Practices During the Pandemic Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Pelin Efilti, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu
Abstract This article examines how domestic cleaning practices were transformed during the pandemic and how they redefined everyday life. Based on a perspective of actor-network theory, we take the food package as an actant and follow it in domestic space through its interactions with other actants. To get a deeper understanding of these interactions, we conducted an ethnographic study focusing on
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Social Housing as Paradoxical Space: Migrant Women’s Spatial Tactics Inside Toki Uzundere Blocks Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Meltem Eranil, Meltem Ö. Gürel
Abstract This study focuses on migrant women’s experiences in TOKI Uzundere, a housing settlement built in Izmir (2009) by the Mass Housing Administration of Turkey (TOKI). It problematizes the incompatibility between the apartments’ standardized layouts and the residents’ spatial practices. The study argues that these interiors have become paradoxical spaces with the potential to be transformed by
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Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000 Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Angela Mehegan
Published in Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space (Vol. 18, No. 3, 2021)
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Racism, Ageism and Home: Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Sarah J. Hahn, Kate De Medeiros
Abstract Despite a sizable literature on home and “place” in later life, few works have specifically focused on the intersection of home, “place,” ageism, and racism. Here, we therefore explore this intersection through a case study of Mr. M., a 69-year-old African American man living in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. M described a lifetime of experiences with racism and later, ageism, that affected his
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International Students and Homemaking in Transition: Locating Home on the Threshold between Ascription and Achievement Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Paolo Boccagni, Stefania Yapo
Abstract How do young people such as international students understand home, and “where” do they locate it, upon their transition into adulthood? Building on in-depth interviews with forty students in a dorm in Northern Italy, we explore their home-university transition, and the attendant relocations of home, at two levels: in everyday life environments, related to their material and dwelling circumstances
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An Emergent Housing Approach: The Bedroom as the Contemporary Minimum Living Cell Home Cultures Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Flavio Martella, Atxu Amann Alcocer
Abstract The social and technological revolutions, combined with the recent crises, have again brought attention to the housing issue in the main western urban environments. More and more people are moving to cities, reopening the architectural debate of the Existenzminimum and the Minimum Living Cell to cope with an ever-increasing demand and ever-less available space combined with the desire to provide
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The Wolf at the Door and the Dog at Our Feet Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Laura D. Gelfand
Abstract Over millennia, faithful devotion to humans and our homes has become central to the identity we have constructed for dogs. Wolves, on the other hand, have been constructed in opposition to dogs, and they have come to represent all that is not home. In this essay I consider representations of wolves, dogs, and the home from antiquity to the present in secular and sacred sources. Using the lens
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Feeling at Home with Anymals in Old Norse Sources Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Harriet J. Evans Tang
Abstract While Viking-age and medieval Iceland was a place of domestic animals, studies of its literature and material culture have little considered the multi-sensory nature of anymal-human relationships.1 A farming society necessarily shapes its places and society around the animals with whom its livelihoods are shared, but the ways in which the home (ON heimr) became, and continued to become a multi-species
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Animals and Home: Introduction to Special Issue Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Jane Hamlett, Julie-Marie Strange
Abstract An overview of the essays included in the Special Issue highlighting the contribution the issue makes to scholarship.
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In the Dog House: British Canines at Home, 1688–1832 Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Stephanie Howard-Smith
Abstract Companion animals tangibly alter our experience of domestic spaces and influence our feelings about home. The Georgian era is well-established as a crucible of British domesticity, and animal historians identify the eighteenth-century as a pivotal moment in the development of ‘modern’ pet ownership. How did emotionally and physically intimate relationships between people and dogs affect their
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Shared Spaces, Practices And Mobilities: Pet–Human Life in Modern Finnish Homes Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Nora Schuurman, Taina Syrjämaa
Abstract In this interdisciplinary article, we examine multispecies homes in modernizing Finnish society. We focus on two illustrative phases of pet culture: cats and dogs in bourgeois and rural homes from the late 19th century to the early 20th century as well as international dog rescue in the early 21st century. We make visible and analyze the continuities in pet–human relationality and petness
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Fantastic Beasts in The Great Indoors: Taxidermy, Animal Capital and the Domestic Interior in Britain, 1851–1921 Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Karen R. Jones
Abstract This article explores taxidermy as an interesting example of human-animal relations through a study of its incorporation into the later nineteenth and early twentieth century domestic interior. Occupying a liminal space that speaks to life and to death, often posed within an operational aesthetic of wildness, yet firmly captured in domestic confines, taxidermy offers valuable insight into
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“Home Is The Theater Of Life”: Scenographic Poetics And American Living Room Ambience, 1900–1925 Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-01-02 John M. Andrick
Abstract Proceeding from the notion of scenography as atmosphere or ambience, this article explores scenographic design elements aimed at a range of American middle-class living rooms during the early-twentieth century when these newly configured domestic interior spaces replaced Victorian parlors, libraries, and drawing rooms as gathering places for both private family activities and those social
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Making A Martian Home: Finding Humans On Mars Through Utopian Architecture Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-01-02 David Jeevendrampillai,Aaron Parkhurst
Abstract A renewed public and state interest in space exploration in recent years, coupled with technological advancements in rocket science and architectural systems, has made design and engineering initiatives for Martian living tangible and urgent. This article traces the practice of utopian architectural design of a home on Mars. This home has been described by its architects as a ‘place for people’
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The Intersection of ‘Outside’ Practices and Children’s Sedentary Behavior at Home Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Apoorva Rathod
Abstract Health concerns about sedentary behavior have brought attention to children’s home lives, including research on the factors influencing children’s sedentary behavior at home. These studies highlight the importance of home factors, namely the media-rich home environment and parental influences. This paper draws on the concept of ‘porosity of the home’ and practice theory to study how children’s
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The Modernist Hollywood Home of Walter and Louise Arensberg Home Cultures Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Henry Martin
Abstract This review of Hollywood Arensberg will appeal to those interested in the history of collecting, and domestic display of modern art. Incorporating pre-existing literature on Walter and Louise Arensberg, the review discusses their close relationship with Marcel Duchamp, their illegal acquisition of pre-Columbian art, their determination to prove Sir. Francis Bacon authored the work of William
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‘Home,’ The Negotiated Place: Narratives of Transnational Home-Making Practices of Turkish-Germans in Schleswig-Holstein Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Hazel Erdal Baran, Nilay Ünsal Gülmez
Turkish-Germans who first arrived in Germany as ‘guests’ in the 1960s hold diverging attitudes towards their habitat, proving that it remains a negotiated reality to this day. The place they migrat...
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A House and its Atmosphere Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 David Littlefield
This book, as Ben Jacks points out, sits within the tradition of those reflective or biographical accounts of designers and other thinkers who use a building project as a vehicle for contemplation. Here, as found in Michael Pollan’s A Place of My Own, Jacks describes the process of siting, designing, constructing and inhabiting a house, pausing at times to introduce the thinkers that most architects
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Uncertain Progress: British Kitchens in the 1920S Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Phil Lyon
Abstract British domestic kitchens are a product of long evolution but went through a period of great innovation one hundred years ago. Some sections of British society started to take an interest in a space that had been largely disregarded. The “servant problem” and suburban building were factors in this changed perspective. By reference to period newspaper archives, the nature of those changes can
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Migrant Housing. Architecture, Dwelling, Migration Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Carmen Popescu
In the past few years, architectural research has started to explore the subject of migrants (Gola et al. 2019), following – with a certain delay – in the steps of other fields that inspired it, such as political science, sociology, and anthropology. If architects already were engaged with the migrant crisis, it seems that architectural history needed exterior stimulation in order to consider the subject
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Alternative Domesticities: Spatial Dynamism in the Home-Making of one Middle-Class, Heterosexual, American Single Mother by Choice Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Linda Layne
Abstract Part of a long-term ethnographic case study of Carmen West, a middle-class, heterosexual, American single mother by choice (SMC) and her three children, this essay focuses on the dynamic way the Wests occupy their domestic space. The fact that SMCs start and raise their families without a male partner opens creative opportunities for imagining and doing domestic life differently. Drawing on
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The In-Home Use of Medications: In Pursuit of Design-Driven Knowledge Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Silvia Pizzocaro,Antonella Penati
Abstract The importance that medications can have in people’s daily lives at home is self-evident, particularly in the case of chronic therapy. And yet, although medications are often part of daily routines, there is still a relative inertia from a design perspective of innovating medications as “objects” inhabiting the domestic landscape. Healthcare and medication innovations are driven by clinical
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THE HOUSE AS THEATER OF MEMORY: MARIO PRAZ AND HIS HOUSE OF LIFE Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Patrizio M. Martinelli
Abstract In classical and Renaissance culture, the tool of memory, used in the art of rhetoric, was linked to architecture: buildings such houses and, in sixteenth-century, theaters, were used as containers of images that could help to remember the correct sequence and development of the speech, and as devices to collect the universal knowledge and to represent the world. With these premises, we could
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Too Much, Too Little, the Wrong or the Right Kind? Negotiating Homes’ Material Stuff in the Context of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Home Visiting Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-05-03 Kirsi Juhila,Kirsi Günther
Abstract This study asks what is regarded as (in)appropriate material stuff in home spaces, and how it is negotiated between professionals and clients in home visit interactions in three substance abuse and mental health services in Finland. In analysing negotiations between professionals and clients, three interpretational frames theorising its meanings and proper place in home spaces are applied
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The Psycho-Geographical Home: “Homemaking” In the Frontier Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Sigal Eden Almogi, Tovi Fenster
Abstract This article proposes a model for exploring the psycho-geographical home incorporating psychoanalytical and geographical perspectives as significant elements for understanding homemaking on the Israeli frontier. It seeks to understand the deeper roots of homemaking in the self through the psychoanalytic lens of object relations, beginning with a brief overview of the psychoanalytic literature
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SHOW APARTMENTS AS ‘AESTHETIC TRAPS’: RISK, ENCHANTMENT AND ILLUSORY HOMES IN LONDON’S OLYMPIC PARK Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Saffron Woodcraft
Abstract This article offers a new analysis of the ‘show apartment’ as a device to disguise the power imbalance between prospective buyers of new off-plan homes and the global network of institutions that drive property development and mortgage-finance industries. Applying Gell’s notion of the ‘aesthetic trap’ to an ethnographic account of show apartments in a new neighbourhood in London’s Olympic
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Dwellers that do not Belong, Dwellings that no Longer Exist: Staging Hotel Interiors and (Unhomely) Domesticity in Experimental Documentary Film Home Cultures Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Kornelia Boczkowska
Abstract Commonly known as non-places or stopping places, hotels create their own sense of domesticity and seclusion, simultaneously invoking an uncanny screen presence due to their non-contradictory nature. Likewise, this article builds on the theory of an architectural uncanny and weirdness to analyze how Chantal Akerman’s Hôtel Monterey and Pat O’Neill’s The Decay of Fiction delineate interior spaces
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Homeliness in Health Care: The Role of Everyday Designing Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Melisa Duque, Sarah Pink, Shanti Sumartojo, Laurene Vaughan
Abstract This article examines how a sense of home can be created in complex clinical healthcare contexts for vulnerable patients. While existing research in this field focuses mainly on patient experience, we take a design anthropological approach to advance the discussion by examining how healthcare staff participate as “everyday designers,” who improvise to create circumstances for homeliness. We
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Between State and Family: Discussion on the Segregation and Integration of the Daily Living Space within Shanghai Historic Lane Neighborhood Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Xiang Zhou, Yuning Cheng
Abstract Based on the phenomenon of social segregation that commonly appears in contemporary cities, the article points out the peculiar problem of adjacent segregation that currently occurs in the historic lane neighborhood of Shanghai. By discussing the dialectical relation between adjacent segregation and mixed habitation, it indicates physical proximity does not necessarily result in social mix
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“Spaces of Contemporary Horror: Poverty and Social Exclusion as 21st Century Spectres” Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Aarón Rodríguez Serrano
Abstract This research explores the connections between the recent economic crisis and the contemporary horror film. To this end, I begin with a theoretical examination of the symbolic function of two key motifs (the ghost and the house), and the possibilities of their use to reinforce or subvert the mechanisms of the neoliberal cultural framework. Taking the horror genre as a privileged space for
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The ideal homes competitions of the 1930’s. Architectural setting for a South African white middle-class Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Alta Steenkamp
Abstract This article investigates the Rand Daily Mail Ideal Homes Competition (1934) and the Argus Ideal Homes Competition (1937) as representations of white South African middle-class culture in the 1930’s. Drawing on Amos Rapoport’s use of ‘setting’, it explores how this group’s cultural values and beliefs where encultured in these competitions. It tells the story of a recently regulated architectural
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Princesses Versus Maids: Domesticating Electricity in the Early Republican Period in Turkey Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Bahar Emgin
Abstract This article is concerned with the question of how electricity was introduced into the home in Turkey during a period when electrification of the country ran in parallel with the establishment of the new republic. Republican discourses of modernization and progress attributed electricity a symbolic transformative power. Yet, the robust power of electricity had to be domesticated before it
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Homemaking in a Living Laboratory: Interpretations of a Zero Emission Housing Solution Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Ruth Woods, Marius Korsnes
Abstract A zero emission building (ZEB), as defined by the Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB Centre) in Norway, is one solution towards achieving the aims set by the Paris Climate Agreement on dramatically reducing carbon emissions. The structure for a zero emission building includes a variety of technical strategies such as passive and active energy design and renewable energy sources
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The Making of Home and History Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Maja Willén
ABSTRACTIn this text, I will discuss how history is used and understood in different contemporary contexts regarding the domestic architecture of the fin de siecle (approx. 1880-1915). The focus is...
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Hard Graft? The Office Chair as a Site for Decorative Art Interventions Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Sarah Horton
ABSTRACTAs everyday life increasingly conflates home and work, the boundaries between the domestic and the workplace become ever more blurred. The practice-led research presented here tested the ab...
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“INSIDE IS REALLY LOVELY…ONCE YOU GET INTO IT” Conflicting narratives of home ‘either side of the wall’ in Basil Spence’s Claremont Court housing scheme Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Sandra Costa Santos
This article interrogates the articulation of architecture and home through the lens of residents’ domestic narratives in Claremont Court housing scheme (1959-62), Edinburgh. The Scottish tenement,...
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Living Rooms Occupied: Narratives on the Recontextualization of the “Museum-Salon” Practice in Modern Turkish Domesticity Home Cultures Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Esra Bici Nasir, Meltem Ö. Gürel
AbstractThis article discusses the notion of “museum-salon” and the changes in its perception and practices in the context of Turkish middle-class home cultures. Many authors have discussed the mea...
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Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow? Home Futures, An Exhibition by the Design Museum, London in Partnership with IKEA Museum, Almhult – 2018-9 Home Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Monika Parrinder, Barry Curtis
ABSTRACT Home Futures, the major exhibition at the Design Museum, London, and IKEA Museum Sweden, explores the trajectory of radical domestic visions from the 1960s—but it seems that the future was closer in the 1960s than now.
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Afterword: Homes in the Context of the Third and Fourth Ages Home Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Paul Higgs
Reflecting on the theme of this special issue it is useful to not only to be aware about how older people have often been forgotten about in thinking about the topic of home, but also that there has been a transformation of what old age means and how these changes have impacted on how societies see the older population. It is useful to remind ourselves that the generalised experience of later life
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Conserving Habitus: Home, Couplehood and Dementia Home Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Manik Gopinath, Sheila Peace, Caroline Holland
ABSTRACT Compared to research on home in circumstances of aging, place and care, our knowledge about home in relation to couplehood is limited despite increases in the percentage of married and cohabiting older people in the UK. Specifically, our understanding of the experience and meaning of home for couples where one partner has dementia remains under-explored. This article presents a scoping review
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Disabling Spaces and Spatial Strategies: Feminist Approaches to the Home Environment of Family Caregivers of People with Dementia Home Cultures Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Phevos Kallitsis, Dia Soilemezi, Anna Maguire Elliott
ABSTRACT The home environment becomes very important for family caregivers of people with dementia as a place of safety, retreat and care provision. Using a gender-based perspective, the authors analyzed thirteen interviews with family caregivers to understand how they perceived their home space. The data was analyzed thematically with the help of adjacency diagrams. Our analysis identified three main