Domestic design rests on assumptions about who lives and uses that space, about what our bodies can do, how our bodies think, move and feel. In this episode Ana Baeza Ruiz is joined by Aimi Hamraie, assistant professor of Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University, and Ellen Clifford, disabled activist and author to discuss what homes do to our bodies and to what extent their design can accommodate experiences of impairment and illness. 

Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode web page: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-body 

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What does it mean to experience loneliness at home, and how have these experiences been aggravated by the pandemic? In this episode Ana Baeza Ruiz talks to Anastasia Christou of Middlesex University and Kate Bloor, founder of Lyme Research UK about one of the greatest public health issues of our age.

Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode web page: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-alone 

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What happens when homes are undone, when they are permanently or temporarily damaged or even destroyed? In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza talks to Dr Mel Nowicki, senior lecturer in urban geography at Oxford Brookes University, and Dr Ella Harris, Leverhulme early career fellow at Birkbeck, University of London about home unmaking.

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We tend to think of domestic space as fixed in one place, but where is home? For many people home happens across various geographies: it is mobile and unstable. In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza talks to Dr Anabelle Wilkins of Queen Mary University of London and Dr Olivia Sheringham of Birkbeck, University of London about the relationship between home and migration, particularly in the context of transnational mobility in London. 

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In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza talks to Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor of Design History and Theory at the University of Portsmouth and Dr Sarah Cheang, Head of Programme for the V&A Museum/RCA History of Design (MA, MPhil, PhD) in London about how many familiar domestic objects within Britain’s homes are intimately linked to imperial histories and geographies and how homemaking has connected the idea of the household to ideas about the nation and empire.

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In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza, opens up questions about the relationship between home, gender and sexuality to consider the project of ‘queering’ home. She discusses ways in which homes might be queer, and why it’s important to look at practices of queering the domestic with Matt Cook - Prof of modern history at Birbeck University, London and Andrew-Gorman-Murray - Prof of Geography at Western Sydney University, Australia.

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The focus on the home has arguably been one of the cornerstones of COVID across much of the scholarly and mainstream media during this period and we want to keep thinking about the ways in which the household has become normalised during COVID-19.

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The recent coronavirus pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated the already precarious housing situation for many.  In this episode, Ana Baeza and David Madden (LSE) take a look at housing legislation during earlier social crises and previous regulation to protect residents.  How are current campaigns tackling the basic right to an affordable home, and what scenarios can we expect over the next few months or years?  

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In this episode Ana Baeza talks to Rosie Cox (Birkbeck) and Lucy Delap (Cambridge University) about the boundaries between home and work. They discuss the history of the physical separation of home and work and use this to think about the transitions marked by Covid19, as we witness a blurring of these boundaries. How does this effect everyday life, privacy and professional relationships?

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This episode focuses on debates about health and architecture at the level of the city, and how they are visualised and represented. Ana Baeza talks to Elizabeth Darling (Oxford Brookes University) and Lukas Engelmann (University of Edinburgh) about the history of hygiene and sanitation. They discuss differences and parallels between then and now. How are today's narratives around the home, health and the pandemic comparable to those of the past?

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