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.

Penny Sparke is one of the foremost scholars in the field of interiors and design history, and MIRC (Modern Interiors Research Centre) is a major research centre in the area

IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPenny Sparke, Ersi Ioannidou, Pat Kirkham, Stephen Knott & Jana ScholzeSection One: Homes, Health and Well-beingChapter 1: Live Gym Classes at Home: Lea Daan and broadcast body movement in 1930s Belgium - Selin Geerinckx & Els De VosChapter 2: Dancing Across the Threshold: Privacy and the home in the time of Covid-19 - Alice T. FriedmanChapter 3: Achieving Well-being in Simple Ways: Cosy, comfortable, and contented domestic interiors in interwar Vienna - Michelle Jackson-BeckettChapter 4: The Quest for Well-being in Japanese Dwellings from the Late Nineteenth Century to Covid-19 - Izumi KuroishiChapter 5: A Space of their Own: A case-study advocating appropriation of the domestic interior for well-being - Eliza Sweeney & Sebastian MesserSection Two: The Unstable HomeChapter 6: The Re-materialisation of Everyday Life: New aesthetic experiences of staying at home in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic - Maja WillenChapter 7: Room for Independence - Home-based women workers and their interiors - Fiona Del Puppo & Paule PerronChapter 8: Working at Home - Architects during the pandemic in China - Ye Xu, Katharina Borsi & Jonathan HaleChapter 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 LabrosseChapter 10: Games without Frontiers: Covid living in refugee camps - Mark Taylor & Iris LevinSection Three: Representing the (In)visibleChapter 11: Tell Don't Show: The invisible plague in seventeenth-century Dutch interior paintings - Irene CieraadChapter 12: Lockdown Portraits: Re-situating the self - Inga BrydenChapter 13: Fiction: IKEA's saleable living for pandemic Life - Rebecca CarraiChapter 14: Nice White Spaces: Race and class in domestic cleaning adds during Covid-19 - Rachele DiniChapter 15: Lockdown Uncanny on Display: Muse¿e Dom-Ino - Nina Bassoli & Roberto GigliottiSection Four: Collecting the Interior in the era of Covid-19Chapter 16: Changing Scenes: Image-making, from parlour to screen - Patrick Lee LucasChapter 17: Shelter in Place Gallery - Eben Haines, Michelle Millar Fisher, Courtney HarrisChapter 18: The Domestic Body - Stefania NapolitanoChapter 19: Interior Archipelago: Postcards from our islands - Lois Weinthal, Patrick Macklin, Wen Liang, Alice Wenyi HuangChapter 20: Stay Home: Rapid response collecting project at the Museum of the Home - Danielle PattenIndex