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Abstract
Borders between the domestic domains of work, family and restoration, are essential to adult well-being. This article interrogates the blurring of these borders by post-pandemic, reshaped relations between adults and children in domestic space. Adult spaces can alleviate the negative well-being effects of blurred borders, but inadequate consideration of intrafamilial separation in contemporary housing forces parents to negotiate adult-child copresence, or ‘presence to one another’. Drawing on time-geography, this article explores adult spaces of avoidance in the family home to negotiate negative copresence and maintain domestic borders. Qualitative analysis of 45 in-depth interviews shows adults in England and Scotland (UK) enacting spatio-temporal tactics -appropriation, exclusion, exile and containment- to negotiate negatively perceived copresence and alleviate its detrimental well-being impacts. Understood as a key component of togetherness, the article demonstrates the relationship between copresence and the physical space of the house, highlighting implications of negatively perceived copresence for housing design.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture Design and Domestic Space |
Early online date | 22 Jan 2025 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 22 Jan 2025 |
Keywords
- adult space; Covid-19 lockdown; family home; copresence; well-being; domestic borders.
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At Home With Children? Liveable Space For The COVID-19 Challenge
Costa Santos, S. (Investigator)
4/01/21 → 3/10/22
Project: Research
Research output
- 2 Article
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‘…nice to get some alone time’: children’s spatial negotiation of alone time needs in the family home
Costa Santos, S. (Lead / Corresponding author), Parnell, R., Abo Kanon, H., Pattinson, E., Pitsikali, A. & Sarhan, H., 8 Feb 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Children's Geographies. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“…We Honestly Just Got Sick of Doing Working Together.” Spatial Negotiation of Adult-Child Thrown togetherness During Lockdown
Pitsikali, A., Sarhan, H., Abo Kanon, H., Costa Santos, S., Parnell, R. & Pattinson, E., 12 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture Design and Domestic Space. 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)54 Downloads (Pure)
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At Home with Children: anonymised transcripts
Costa Santos, S. (Creator), Sarhan, H. (Creator), Parnell, R. (Creator), Pitsikali, A. (Creator), Pattinson, E. (Creator) & Abo Kanon, H. (Creator), Newcastle University, 12 Oct 2022
DOI: 10.25405/data.ncl.20223534.v1, https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/At_Home_with_Children_anonymised_transcripts/20223534
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