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/

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S2 Episode 7: 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/

S2 Episode 6: 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/ 

S2 Episode 5: Home Work/House 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/ 

S2 Episode 4: Home Cities

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/

S2 Episode 3: 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.

S2 Episode 2: Home Senses

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.

S2 Episode 1: Home 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.

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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.

Episode 5: Home Writer

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.

Episode 4: Home Planet

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.

Episode 3: Home (Dis)Comforts

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.

Episode 1: Home Memories

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.

Episode 2: Home Displacements

How do we think and remember with 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.

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.

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That Feels Like Home builds new stories around MoDA's collections to explore what home means to us.

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That Feels like Home

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