HOME BRIDGES THE WORLD. PROMISING DOMESTIC SCENARIOS IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID CRISIS.

This book presents a design-oriented research that addresses understanding how our homes have changed following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and how this worldwide crisis could leverage our homes to play different roles in our daily life. As designers and researchers, we would like to provide our contributions, along with others who are searching for solutions to deal with this pandemic. We started with people’s needs and desires that emerged during this crisis especially in the domestic context, and translated them into promising directions where viable solutions could be defined to improve certain areas of people’s lives. Seven design-orienting scenarios of our home are presented as the preliminary results, which are developed as the starting point for fostering conversations and further development with other stakeholders to achieve practical and effective outcomes.