Metamodern Home

The COVID-19 pandemic intensified and accelerated transformations in domestic cultures that had been slowly taking shape out of sight. This book introduces the reader to the metamodern home, a concept necessary to understand the domestic paradigm shift currently underway.The book interrogates the space of the family house in relation to shifting domestic ideology, as seen through the subjective lived realities of adults and children. Three interrelated foci underpin a novel cross-disciplinary approach: togetherness, the domestic ideal foregrounded by family practices; adults’ and children’s subjective lived experiences of the family home; and the family house as active material force, both mediating and materialising frictions between ideals and lived experience. Attending to how different (f)actors co-create the family home, The Metamodern Home advances understanding of emerging meanings and uses of the family house.Understanding the concept of the metamodern home will benefit housing practitioners, architects, academics and any general reader with an interest in domestic architecture, home studies and family studies. They will gain essential knowledge about the practices through which families spatialise the relation between the house and their own well-being, as well as understanding of the role of domestic space in modulating the togetherness-separateness dyad for healthy family life.