Happiness and Domestic Life by Russo, Maria Teresa; Argandoña, Antonio; Peatfield, Richard;

Short description:

This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the quality of domestic life and the home environment, in its material and relational dimension, with individual and social happiness, in the context of current changes.

Long description:

This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine the relationship between the quality of domestic life and the home environment, in its material and relational dimension, with individual and social happiness, in the context of current changes.

The theme of happiness and well-being is framed within two significant changes, themselves affected by the recent COVID-19 pandemic: the relationship between the individual’s quality of life and engagement within the community, and the role of new technologies in everyday life. The authors highlight the relational nature of happiness and the centrality of the home environment in its promotion. Three dimensions of psychosocial well-being in the home are analysed: the personal one, consisting of a sense of stability, intimacy and sharing; the social one, which considers the domestic environment as a place for civic education and, in times of pandemic, the site of professional activity and the physical one, consisting of spaces, services and architectural styles.

This book is ideal for readers who wish to cross disciplinary boundaries and explore the topic of domestic happiness in its different facets. The target audience is both professional researchers and advanced graduate and undergraduate students.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Happiness and Domestic Life

Part 1: DOMESTIC HAPPINESS BETWEEN THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPHERES

1. The Impact of Domestic Happiness on Public Space

2. Care, Flourishing, Happiness: The Challenge at Home

3. Home After/During/Around the Pandemic of Individualism

Part 2: TECHNOLOGY, DOMESTICATION AND WELL-BEING IN THE HOME

4. Home Implosion: Digital Media and the Reinvention of the Private Sphere

5. Creating Meaningful Connected Homes: The Relationships and Dynamics of Household-Digital Technology Interactions in Fostering Wellbeing

6. Smart Homes and Domestic Wellbeing: What has been Lost?

Part 3: HOME LIFE, FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND NEW WAYS OF WORKING

7. Home Activities and Happiness: Assessments based on Meeting Points between Human Resources Retention Practices and Stages of Happiness

8. How do the New Work-Related Digital Technologies allow for Maximum Opportunities for those Home Activities and Connections, that will lead to Greater Individual Happiness?

9. The Home: A Creative Laboratory during Covid-19

10. Positive Parenting in Covid-19 Times

Part 4: HAPPY DWELLING? CRITICALITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF CHANGES IN URBAN LIVING

11. The "kitchenless house": radical changes in home design and their impact on human well-being

12. The "Neighbourhood" as a Pivotal Element of the Infrastructure of a Flourishing Society

13. Architecture in Between: Social Change and Happiness Cross-Temporal Analysis of Urban Living in Twentieth Century Iraq