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The objective of this research is to examine the potential of the sphere in the context of architecture for individual housing. The point of departure is the idea of the bubble and the identification of the connotations inherent to it since antiquity that have inspired architects to employ spheres that challenge settled architectural paradigms. The development and use of the sphere are presented through a selection of the most important examples - from the first known utopian vision designed by Antoine Laurent Thomas Vaudoyer in 1783 to the constructed and actually used facilities designed for individual dwellings in the 20th century. The interior design strategies that can address the challenges posed by curved envelope and optimize the use of space in spherical individual dwellings have been further explored in a practical assignment given to students enrolled in the Interior Workshop in the Graduate Programme of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb in the academic year 2020/2021. In addition to these architectural problems of formal nature, the intention of this design-driven experiment was to examine the affinity of the younger generation towards moving away from traditional models of layouts for individual housing, with the goal of possibly creating more humanized spaces that support the idea of a new domesticity: nomadic lifestyles, the integration of work into the domestic sphere, new family models (e.g., single-occupant) or the increasing need for privacy. In the architecture of individual housing, the sphere is in general an uncommon phenomenon. And yet there is a perceptible continuity of innovative architectural forays into the search for the most effective application of this elementary geometrical form.

In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this comprehensive study of the effects of that law, Neil J. Diamant draws on newly opened urban and rural archival sources to offer a detailed analysis of how the law was interpreted and implemented throughout the country. In sharp contrast to previous studies of the Marriage Law, which have argued that it had little effect in rural areas, Diamant argues that the law reshaped marriage and family relationships in significant--but often unintended--ways throughout the Maoist period. His evidence reveals a confused and often conflicted state apparatus, as well as cases of Chinese men and women taking advantage of the law to justify multiple sexual encounters, to marry for beauty, to demand expensive gifts for engagement, and to divorce on multiple occasions. Moreover, he finds, those who were best placed to use the law's more liberal provisions were not well-educated urbanites but rather illiterate peasant women who had never heard of sexual equality; and it was poor men, not women, who were those most betrayed by the peasant-based revolution.

The main objective of this contribution is to reflect upon the different ways in which women authors of electronic literature in English have used intermediality and computational tools to reconfigure the concept of the home as a traditionally feminine space. This study has involved the selection and analysis of a set of works belonging to the same decade, which include Mary Flanagan’s [domestic] (2003) and [thehouse] (2006); Roxanne Carter’s Housing Problems (2009); Christine Wilks’ Talespin (2008); Juliet Davies’ Pieces of Herself (2005); and J. R. Carpenter’s Entre Ville (2006) and In Absentia (2008). By analyzing a heterogeneous mixture of media formats and genres, this article will trace a trajectory of real, possible, and imagined technological incursions in female spaces: from posthuman reconfigurations of domesticity in data landscapes to cyborgic transformations of the “angel of the house.” The authors selected illustrate the way in which the digital space can be also used to contest traditional roles, expose the cultural politics that lies behind normative categories, and call for a revision of the demands that the digital room of one’s own impinges on women.

Studying ordinary housing types in Quito for a design studio activity led me to question the limitations of local theoretical accounts of incorporating non-canonical works in the literature. This essay develops this idea and analyzes how housing designs by Sixto Durán Ballén and Diego Ponce Bueno are portrayed in important architectural publications by employing diverse uses of the notion of type, allowing the way coloniality is reproduced in domestic spaces to be obliterated. The essay concludes by positing a speculative decolonial type, focused on communal spaces as the basis for experimentation rather than type as a pre-existing image or prejudiced model.

This paper builds on work about rewilding and human–animal relations by focusing inquiry on Portugal's Côa Valley, where a concentration of prehistoric rock art animal figures shares a landscape with a rewilding pilot which seeks to reestablish a population of wild horses. In response to recent geographical debates, the paper offers a sustained, situated analysis of the temporalities of rewilding and related claims to non-human autonomy. In the Côa Valley, ancient images of animal others are enrolled in efforts to return \"wild\" horses to the landscape, but conceptions of wildness and domesticity, and autonomy and temporality, remain fluid and unfixed – even as they are implicated in the production of bounded spaces and invoked in present-day management imperatives. To conclude, we argue for an appreciation of degrees of animal autonomy in rewilding contexts, moving beyond the binaries that often seem to be the focus of rewilding debates. Understanding of these degrees of autonomy, we argue, must be grounded in histories of landscape co-habitation and co-production, and consider the intersection of past cultural tradition and conceptions of desired future natures.

This article introduces this special issue. It discusses the issue’s aims to approach the globalised economy of domestic work not merely from the standpoint of professions and services but by considering the varied forms of domesticity shaped by diverse social and spatial conditions. Accordingly, it examines the social and spatial hierarchies that structure this economy at the intersection of multi-scalar power dynamics. It presents the nine articles included in the special issue, which span a range of social and geographical contexts from elite enclaves to migrant households and from digital platforms to public squares. Together, these contributions describe domesticity as a dynamic field marked by the negotiation and contestation of boundaries.

Making and consuming food are evident aspects in migrants’ construction and reproduction of memory, identity and belonging. Food consumption can also enable migrants to make themselves at home abroad by reproducing aspects of their past and relating them to particular places in the present. This article draws from ethnographic work in Ecuadorian restaurants in Madrid to investigate the ‘domestication’ of space through their material culture. It examines the representation and use of these restaurants to unveil multiple ways of displaying belonging and reproducing degrees of domesticity. Enacting private routines, embodying familiarity through food and decorating backbars are instances that reveal how the material arrangements in migrant-run restaurants facilitate the construction of a sense of home. From a sociological perspective, this article reveals how the boundaries between private and public, as well as migrants’ ethnicity and belonging, are constantly reshaped through material arrangements that operate as forms of domestication of space.

During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life became a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is about the traces of this change, its approach and consequences and its anchoring in the material and social life of the Swedish manor. The comfort revolution of the eighteenth century was clearly associated with both new types of furniture and new ways of furnishing. An important aspect of the development of comfort was the new mobility and flexibility in form and function that the home and its interior now showed. Through the home of the Wadenstierna family on the country estate of Näs, north of Stockholm, the comfortable everyday life was set by their various tables - at writing desks, sewing tables, dressing tables, coffee tables and games tables.

The essay explores an updated application of Giancarlo De Carlo’s participatory method through the renovation of a hotel timeshare in Gioiosa Marea (ME), which was used by one hundred and thirty-five families. The experience integrated sociological enquiry, metric-environmental surveys, and subjective and objective tools to meet the needs of users who wished to adapt the spaces to their new living requirements. The shared design produced flexible solutions, improving functionality and comfort, and renewing the link between space and people. The experimentation allowed clients to re-evaluate the architect’s role as a social and cultural mediator in the development of living space, and the designer to develop a replicable method.

Zukiswa Wanner’s The Madams (2006) and Behind Every Successful Man (2008) grapple with the contradictory mess and incompleteness of black middleclass masculine and feminine subjectivities within the ‘post-apartheid’ South African nuclear family. These seemingly polarised positions are constructed and steeped within the unstable modern nuclear family and neo-traditional values. This articles’ discussion of the novels is foregrounded on the domestic as a site and an ideology that manufactures, shapes and regiments sexuality and subjectivity construction and gender performances in both males and females. It suggests that the relationship between class, consumerism and pseudo-African values play a significant role in the back and forth transformation of black masculinities and femininities.