Includes index.

General Introduction / Penny Sparke, Ersi Ioannidou, Pat Kirkham, Stephen Knott, Jana Scholze -- Section One: Home, Health and Well-being Introduction / Pat Kirkham & Stephen Knott. Chapter 1: Interwar 'Wohnkultur': Viennese Interior Design Reform & Hygienic Home / Michelle Jackson-Beckett (Senior Lecturer, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria) ; Chapter 2: Live Gym Classes at Home: How Lea Daan Brought Body Movement into 1930s Belgian Homes / Selin Geerinckx & Els De Vos (Faculty of Design Sciences / Interior Architecture, University of Antwerp, Belgium) ; Chapter 3: Dancing Over the Threshold: Lessons from the Pandemic / Alice Friedman (Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College, USA) ; Chapter 4: A Space of their Own: Appropriating the Domestic Interior for Wellbeing in the Time of Covid / Eliza Sweeney (Creative Arts Therapist, Educator, & Artist) & Sebastian Messer (Senior Lecturer, Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University, UK) ; Chapter 5: The Limitations of Modernisation in Japanese Housing and its Resilience in the Covid-19 situation / Izumi Kuroishi (School of Creative and Cultural Studies, Yale University, USA) -- Section Two: The Unstable Home Introduction / Penny Sparke. Chapter 6: The Materialization of Staying at Home / Maja Willen (Senior Lecturer in Art History, Stockholm University, Sweden) ; Chapter 7: Working at Home - Architects during the Pandemic in China / Ye Xu (PhD candidate, University of Nottingham), Katharina Borsi (Senior Tutor and Associate Professor, University of Nottingham, UK) & Professor Jonathan Hale (Professor of Architecture, Culture and Tectonics, University of Nottingham, UK) ; Chapter 8: Room for Independence -Interiors of Home-based Women Workers / Fiona del Puppo (architect, engineer, and PhD candidate, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) & Paule Perron (architect, researcher, and assistant teacher in architecture and interior design, HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland) ; Chapter 9: From Caseta to Cuarto -Transitional Justice in Colombia / Cynthia Hammond (lead author and Professor of Art History, Concordia University, Canada), Vanessa Sicotte, Marcela Torres Molano & Greg Labrosse (Concordia University, Canada) ; Chapter 10: Games without Frontiers - Covid Living in Refugee Camps / Mark Taylor (Professor of Architectural History, Swinburne University, Australia) & Iris Levin (Lecturer in Urban Planning, RMIT, Australia) -- Section 3: Representations of Home Introduction / Jana Scholze. Chapter 11: Lockdown Uncanny on Display -Muse ́e Dom-Ino / Nina Bassoli (architect, curator and research assistant, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) & Roberto Gigliotti (Associate Professor of Interior and Exhibition Design, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) ; Chapter 12: Lockdown portraits: Resituating the Self / Inga Bryden (Professor of Cultural History, University of Winchester, UK) ; Chapter 13: Tell don't show: The invisible plague in 17th century Dutch interior paintings / Irene Cieraad (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands) ; Chapter 14: Nice White Spaces -Race and Class in Domestic Cleaning Ads during Covid-19 / Rachele Dini (Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton, UK) ; Chapter 15: IKEA's Saleable Living for Pandemic Life / Rebecca Carrai (PhD student, KU Leuven University, Belgium) -- Section Four: Collecting the Interior in the Era of Covid-19 Introduction / Ersi Ioannidou. Chapter 16: Changing Scenes: Image-Making -- From Parlor to Screen / Patrick Lee Lucas (Associate Professor, School of Interiors, University of Kentucky, USA) ; Chapter 17: Shelter in Place Gallery / Eben Haines & Michelle Fisher (Curators and Directors of Shelter in Place Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA), Courtney Harris (Assistant Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA) & Michelle Millar Fisher (Ronald, C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA) ; Chapter 18: The Domestic Body / Stefania Napolitano (Curator, Education Department, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy) ; Chapter 19: Interior Archipelago -Postcards from Our Islands / Patrick Macklin (The Glasgow School of Art, UK), Lois Weinthal (Ryerson University, Canada) & Wen Liang (Tsinghua University, China) ; Chapter 20: Stay Home: Rapid response collecting project at the Museum of the Home / Danielle Patten (Curator, Museum of the Home, UK) -- Index.

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.