Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care

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Abstract

Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as a continualprocess of creating, maintaining, and restoring meanings and experiences of home. Melisa Duque draws from her design ethnographic practice with people using smart home lighting, gardening, jigsaw puzzles, and op-shopping to present everyday examples in dialogue with theoretical discussions, revealing the role of homeliness in generating wellbeing. The research projects featured in this book were conducted in rural, regional, remote, and metropolitan areas in Australia, at familiar and unfamiliar living sites, including people's homes, a mental health hospital unit, a residential aged care facility, and a charity shop revaluing domestic things. This book offers conceptualisations and practical tools to advance home studies while engaging with broader discussions on ageing, wellbeing, and sustainability. Led by design researchand social science analysis, this book will be of value for students, researchers, and practitioners at these intersections, including design, anthropology, and human geography.

Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationAbingdon UK
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages158
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781040151723, 9781003241362
ISBN (Print)9781032136387, 9781032148373
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025

Publication series

NameHOME

Keywords

  • Arts
  • Built Environment
  • Geography
  • Social Sciences

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