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After the war, the home acquired a central role in the reconstruction of society. During the years of war, many men had left the family for military service, and their work had been done by women. To reinstate the family as a place of humanist values – social intercourse, child rearing, play, reproduction – was part of the ideological program that was already set in motion during the war.
Together with the increasing influence of mass consumption, that in part may be seen as resulting from the shift from war-time production to everyday consumption, the idea of “the family” had a big impact on household life. The home became the privileged site of investment for consumption – the production of kitchen appliances, furniture, food, etc. – and a place where the gender roles of the “new family” were to be established. Jean Baudrillard suggests that the ideological function of the home changed through consumption – once a moral and symbolic institution, it now turned into a playground for a new organization of objects and social life.
Excerpt from Helena Mattsson's "House of the Future: The Sociology of Interior Design in An Age of Consumption"
Contents
House of the Future: The Sociology of Interior Design in An Age of Consumption
By Helena Mattsson
Escaping the Maggots
By CM von Hausswolff
Introduction to Toyo Ito
By Andreas Lönnroth
Glimpses of the Invisible City
A Conversation between Toyo Ito and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Body, Fashion,Architecture: On Hussein Chalayan
By Bradley Quinn
The Representation of Silence in Louis Kahn’s Writings on Architecture
By Lars Mikael Raattamaa
Introduction to Marc Bijl
By Power Ekroth
TerrorResist A project
By Marc Bijl
Nationalist Discourse in the Caribbean: Narrating Independence in Patrick Chamoiseau’s "Biblique des derniers"
By Heidi Boisen
The Media as National Prisms
By Kristina Riegert
Governing Sweden
By Sven-Olov Wallenstein
The Second Eye
By Isabel Firmin
The State of Emergency
By Giorgio Agamben
Peace and War
By Eric Alliez and Antonio Negri
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