Designing Homeliness

Melisa Duque is a design researcher at Monash University and the University of Auckland. Her works sits at the intersection of Design Anthropology, Participatory Design, and Everyday Design. Melisa’s research looks at two main areas: designing for revaluing, including practices of repair and reuse, and design for intergenerational and ageing wellbeing.

“How do we make our homes liveable, comfortable and reflective of ourselves; in a word: homely? In this enchanting, interdisciplinary and highly accessible book, Melisa Duque deploys an innovative design ethnography to find out. In her inspiring exploration of apparently mundane shared practices, she identifies how everyday creativities, leisure and shopping shape how we continuously come to dwell within our own domestic worlds.”- Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK“In Designing Homeliness, Melisa Duque presents a sophisticated understanding of forms of design that operate at ordinary sites of living. She dwells on them by articulating what it means - and could mean - to design homeliness in our troubled times. Interdisciplinary designers and researchers alike will find her proposals unsettling and full of possibilities.”- Andrea Botero, Aalto University, Finland

• 1 Introduction: situating homeliness2 Homeliness, wellbeing, revaluing and everyday designing3 The lit home: smart lights and lighting for homeliness4 Grounding activities: gardening and puzzles for wellbeing5 Relational patina: care and value negotiations6 Inconclusion: co-living with shadows, grief and decay