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Home futures : living in yesterday's tomorrow / [edited by Eszter Steierhoffer and Justin McGuirk].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [London, United Kingdom : Design Museum Publishing, 2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 187200542X
  • 9781872005423
Other title:
  • Living in yesterday's tomorrow
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Contents:
Foreword / Deyan Sudjic -- Introduction / Eszter Steierhoffer -- Catalogue. Living with others -- Living on the move -- Living smart -- Living with less -- Living autonomously -- Domestic arcadia -- Reader. Beyond the four walls / Jing Liu of SO-IL -- Loveless: a short history of minimum dwelling / Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara and Marson Korbi of Dogma -- The porous interior: privacy and performance at home / Justin McGuirk -- Labour-saving technology and the ideology of ease / Adam Greenfield -- Sexing the smart home / Sarah Kember -- The irrational home / Barry Curtis -- Afterword / Emilio Ambasz.
Summary: The home of the future has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized home or the notion that technology might free us from the home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today and patterns of use in the sharing economy the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has the home proved resistant to radical change? 'Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow' explores different approaches to reinventing domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home. The first comprehensive survey of the 20th century's aspirational, radical and futuristic visions of the home, this richly illustrated publication showcases a range of ideas and plans for the future from the prescient to the fantastical that designers produced as they imagined new ways of living at home and on the move, independently and collectively, with more and with less.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology might free us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has 'home' proved resistant to radical change?

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow -accompanying a major Design Museum exhibition of the same title-explores a number of different attitudes toward domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home. It proposes that we are already living in yesterday's tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted.

This book begins with a lavishly illustrated catalogue portraying the 'home futures' of the twentieth century and beyond, from the work of Ettore Sottsass and Joe Colombo to Google's recent forays into the smart home. The catalogue is followed by a reader consisting of newly commissioned essays by writers such as Dan Hill and Justin McGuirk, which explore the changes in the domestic realm in relation to space, technology, society, economy and psychology.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Design Museum, London, U.K., November 7, 2018-March 24, 2019.

Includes index.

The home of the future has long been a topic of fascination in popular culture and an intriguing prospect for designers, and the 20th century offered up countless visions of the future of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanized home or the notion that technology might free us from the home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today and patterns of use in the sharing economy the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has the home proved resistant to radical change? 'Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow' explores different approaches to reinventing domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home. The first comprehensive survey of the 20th century's aspirational, radical and futuristic visions of the home, this richly illustrated publication showcases a range of ideas and plans for the future from the prescient to the fantastical that designers produced as they imagined new ways of living at home and on the move, independently and collectively, with more and with less.

Foreword / Deyan Sudjic -- Introduction / Eszter Steierhoffer -- Catalogue. Living with others -- Living on the move -- Living smart -- Living with less -- Living autonomously -- Domestic arcadia -- Reader. Beyond the four walls / Jing Liu of SO-IL -- Loveless: a short history of minimum dwelling / Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara and Marson Korbi of Dogma -- The porous interior: privacy and performance at home / Justin McGuirk -- Labour-saving technology and the ideology of ease / Adam Greenfield -- Sexing the smart home / Sarah Kember -- The irrational home / Barry Curtis -- Afterword / Emilio Ambasz.

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