Designing Homeliness

<p><i>Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care</i> proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as a continual process of creating maintaining and restoring meanings and experiences of home. Melisa Duque draws from her design ethnographic practice with people using smart home lighting gardening jigsaw puzzles and op-shopping to present everyday examples in dialogue with theoretical discussions revealing the role of homeliness in generating wellbeing. The research projects featured in this book were conducted in rural regional remote and metropolitan areas in Australia at familiar and unfamiliar living sites including people’s homes a mental health hospital unit a residential aged care facility and a charity shop revaluing domestic things. This book offers conceptualisations and practical tools to advance home studies while engaging with broader discussions on ageing wellbeing and sustainability. Led by design research and social science analysis this book will be of value for students researchers and practitioners at these intersections including design anthropology and human geography.</p>