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department of humanities | simon fraser university |
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| material culture blog | http://www.materialworldblog.com/ | |
| Easier Living, by Design - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com | http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/easier-living-by-design/ | |
| Housing, Theory and Society | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14036096.asp | Furthers the agenda of housing research as an integrated, multidisciplinary field that is theoretically-informed and embedded in wider societal issues. |
| International Journal of Housing Policy | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14616718.asp | |
| Housing Studies | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/chosauth.asp | The essential international forum for academic debate in the housing field. |
| Interior Spaces in Other Places | http://www.interiorspacesinotherplaces.com/ | An IDEA Symposium 3-5 February 2010
Partnered by QUT Interior Design and the State Library of Queensland |
| Minimum.... or Maximum Cities? - The Conference | http://www.min-max-cities.org/ | What is the future for cities? Are they expanding at an ever-increasing rate or are they being abandoned and shrinking into oblivion? |
| Histories of the Home | http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/find_a_network/subject_specialists/Histories_of_the_Home | Information about the Histories of the Home Subject Specialist Network, including its mission, vision, aims, and past events. |
| Mark Cowper photographs: Ethelburga Tower | http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/mar/28/ethelburga-tower-pictures-by-mark-cowper?picture=345111258 | Guardian feature: "Structurally they are identical, but each of these high-rise apartments has been adapted to make it home. Photographer Mark Cowper catches them in the moment." |
| Making Home listserv | https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=MAKING-HOM | Hello Everybody,
Happy new year, I hope it is treating you well so far. This is just to let you know that as a first step to encouraging and enabling communication about the home we have establised a jiscmail list. The aim is to provide an easy way of bringing together scholars to discuss the material, symbolic, and functional contours of domestic space. It is interdisciplinary, covering history, art history, sociology, and human geography and many other areas. We hope it will provide a place to explore how home relates to identity and community formation, and to wider national politics, cultures and histories, discussing methodologies for researching home, as well as posting calls and other information that will be of interest to members. The list is open access and to become a member you just need to go to https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=MAKING-HOME and follow the link 'join or leave MAKING HOME'. Please do join and feel free to pass this on to your contacts who would be interested. Very best wishes Rosie Cox, Matt Cook and Alison Oram |
| Queen Mary University of London and Women's Design Service: www.gendersite.org | http://www.gendersite.org | I thought you might be interested to learn of a new research resource in the field of gender and the built environment, from Queen Mary University of London and Women's Design Service. It will be officially launched on October 2nd at the Octagon, QMUL.
www.gendersite.org is a new cross-disciplinary, online database of bibliographic resources and case studies on gender and the built environment. I was the Academic Researcher on the project, which brings together around 1500 English language titles, including books, journal articles, reports, and web resources, which range across the social sciences, architecture, planning and development, legislation and policy advice. It is aimed at a wide-ranging audience of academics, practitioners and policy-makers working at the intersection of social, cultural and built environment issues. Please see the attached press release for further information. I do hope you will find time to log on to the website at some point and browse through the material. If you have any comments, please do send them in to me personally or to the email address shown on the website. We hope the database will continue to expand steadily over time. With best wishes, Clare Melhuish Dr Clare Melhuish Academic Researcher/ Disseminator Gender and the Built Environment QMUL/ WDS c.melhuish@qmul.ac.uk cmelhuish@wds.org.uk www.gendersite.org |
| Home Transfer | http://www.hometransfer.org | The Home Transfer website contains video and text interviews with architects in which they discuss how new technologies impact the home.
Source: www.hometransfer.org |
| Susan Dobson, Artist/Photographer | http://www.susandobson.com | Susan Dobson is an artist/photographer and professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. In exhibits such as Open House, Sprawl, Home Invasion and No Fixed Address & Paint Palettes she has photographically explored the tensions between consumerism and individualism and “the subliminal violence inherent in the societal quest for and concurrent struggle against sameness and assimilation” in suburban domestic structures and interiors. These exhibits can be viewed virtually in the “Projects” section of her website.
Source: www.susandobson.com |
| womenstown.org | http://www.womenstown.org | This website explores the temporary town for 35,000 women that was the 1995 NGO Forum, and offers resources for teaching and learning about gender and the built environment.
The Forum ran parallel to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women. Looking at the built form of that town, and the activities within it, one sees many of the issues women around the globe encounter in their everyday lives. Source: http://www.womenstown.org |
| Arts and Humanities Research Board, Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior (CSDI) | http://www.rca.ac.uk/csdi/ | ‘The goal of the Centre is to develop new histories of the home, its contents and its representation. It pursues research into the changing appearance and layout of the rooms in a range of buildings, from tenements to palaces, the objects that furnished those rooms, the ways rooms and objects were depicted, the manner in which people used them, and how they thought about them.
At the heart of the research undertaken by the CSDI is a broad-ranging analytical survey of the ways in which Western interiors are represented. Part of this work involves the compilation of a database of visual and textual sources charting representations of the domestic interior in the West from 1400 to the present. The accompanying CSDI book The Imagined Interior: Representations of the Domestic Interior since the Renaissance will form the definitive study of changing representations of the domestic interior in North America and Europe from 1400 to the present. It represents the work of Centre staff and many of the scholars associated with its programme of conferences and symposia.’ |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | http://www.vam.ac.uk/ | |
| http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk/events/ | ||
| Th?nk Vancouver: On the Homefront | ThInk Vancouver | A CBC sponsored website focusing on domestic space issues in and around British Columbia. Highlights inlcude historical information on various local landmarks, historic walking routes and various stories on home, art and life on the streets. |
| SIMple and Personal: Domestic Space & The Sims | http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/papers/Flanagan.pdf | Author: Mary Flanagan (University of Oregon)
mary@maryflanagan.com ABSTRACT: What happens when video games, a typical "male" space primarily created by men, are combined with domestic space? Domestic space has been historically linked to the feminine, and therefore, playing a game set in a house must be a kind of "feminisation" of the player. That the game The Sims is popular among women and girls also supports this thesis. In this essay, I postulate that this feminization manifests through the design of the game space, game tasks, and game goals,and that further, this feminisation is reflected socially through the dominance of consumer culture. |
| Cornell University Creates Home Economics Archive | http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/index.html | Cornell University has created an archive of over 1,500 volumes (over
600,000 pages) related to home economics. Topics can be browsed alphabetically, by keyword search, and through Boolean queries. Topics selected lead to content and more links if available. |
| Technology and Culture Journal | http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/journals/tech/ | An international journal providing a space for "the scholarship of professional historians of technology".
Editor: John M. Staudenmaier |
| Domestic Space Forum in the Journal "Signs" | http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/Signs/journal/contents/v27n3.html | Various articles on domestic space including: home and garden and home making. |
| Home Transfer web project | http://www.hometransfer.org/ | Home, architecture, and technology. |
| House and Home: Research Programme in Human Settlement | http://www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/research/rphs/rphshome.htm |
