That Feels like Home

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  Join our podcast mailing list for podcast news Please let us know your thoughts on the podcast by completing this short survey.

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  Join our podcast mailing list for podcast news Please let us know your thoughts on the podcast by completing this short survey.

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. Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode web page: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-unmaking/ Join our podcast mailing list for podcast news Please let us know your thoughts on the podcast by completing this short survey

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.  Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode web page: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-mobilities/ Join our podcast mailing list for podcast news Please let us know your thoughts on the podcast by completing this short survey.

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. Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode web page:  https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-empire/ Join our podcast mailing list for podcast news Please let us know your thoughts on the podcast by completing this short survey

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. Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode web page: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-queering Join our podcast mailing list for podcast news Please let us know your thoughts on the podcast by completing this short survey.  

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. In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza, discusses with Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds) how people have staged their homes for public view, from analogue photography to digital imaging on social media.  Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode web page:  https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/staging-home/

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?  Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode webpage: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-housing/

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?Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode webpage: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-work/  

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? Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode webpage: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-health/ 

In this episode we consider the sounds of our homes, from the radio to silence to the mundane sounds of day to day, and how we are possibly more aware of them during Covid19. Ana Baeza talks to Jo Tacchi and sound artist and knitter Felicity Ford about how these audiophonic landscapes are changing with digital technologies.Transcript, Links and Resources can be found on the episode webpage: https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/home-sounds/

Our homes are sensory spaces. We make sense of our homes through objects, textures, sounds. In this episode, Ana Baeza talks to anthropologist Sarah Pink about the effect of Covid19 on practices of home-making, and the impact of the digital in extending and enclosing our domestic spaces.

In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza, talks to historians Trevor Keeble and Jane Hamlett about the design of homes in Britain from the nineteenth century onward. They discuss the idea of the home as a private space, and consider how we are currently re-negotiating these spaces in the context of Covid19 through the uses of digital technologies.Over the last few hundred years, homes have been regarded as private and separate from public space. This assumption has been built into the interior design and lay-out of the house, and has in turn influenced our social interactions and the relationship between outside and inside, public and private spaces.

We’re recording the second season of this podcast in the context of the global pandemic. So in Season Two of That Feels Like Home, we explore multiple stories around home in the current crisis. How has Covid-19 affected our sense of home? In what ways are we engaging with others in our domestic spaces? How is our relationship to home affected by new work routines?  How has lockdown affected those who do not have a stable home?MoDA’s curator, Ana Baeza, will be talking with historians, anthropologists, activists and practitioners about the challenges brought about by Covid-19: from the sensory experience of the home, through to the impact of the pandemic on housing issues, housework and health. As always, we draw inspiration from MoDA’s collections to illuminate these questions in the present. We also want to hear from you how you’re experiencing lockdown at home. We’ve launched a crowd-sourcing initiative to feature diverse voices in our podcast. If you’d like to take part, please get in touch by emailing moda@mdx.ac.uk.

Are we at home when we write? Ana Baeza, MoDA's Curator, talks to Josie Barnard (Associate Professor in Creative Writing, De Montfort University) about practices of writing, the materials and tools we use to think and write, and how this has all changed with digital technology.

Given the impact of the fashion industry on the planet's resources, how might natural dyes offer more sustainable alternatives to synthetic dyestuffs? Ana Baeza, MoDA's Curator, talks with Zoe Burt, Lara Mantell and Flo Hawkins, three textile practitioners working with natural dyes who were inspired by MoDA's collections. They discuss issues around sustainability and environmental activism.

What if you woke up one day and your home was the same but a third smaller? In this episode, Ana Baeza, MoDA's Curator, discusses with Nicky Lambert (Middlesex University) and Paula Chambers (Leeds Art University) how our homes can feel uncanny, uncomfortable and unsafe, and how, historically, this has had a lot to do with gendered constructions of domestic space.

How do we think with and remember objects from our past? In this episode, Ana Baeza, MoDA's Curator, discusses with Jill Stewart (Middlesex University) and Alina Tiits (Museum of Brands) how museums are using their collections for reminiscing, especially to work with people living with dementia.

Why is the popular image of the suburbs associated with the white middle-class nuclear family? Ana Baeza, MoDA's curator, discusses with sociologist Dr Magali Peyrefittte (Brunel University) how the notion of the suburb has been constructed and transformed.

Music creditsMagnetic Bite by Ayato & Kecap Tuyul is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Would You Change the World by Min-Y-Llan is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License.   That Feels Like Home is produced by the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Middlesex University.