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Transformable furnishing : from "modern home" to contemporary house

dc.contributor.authorForino, Imma
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-19T17:01:32Z
dc.date.available2025-02-19T17:01:32Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractAbstract : Among the many problems highlighted by the recent COVID-19 pandemic is the ina-dequacy of many homes to accommodate people during a health emergency. During the various lockdowns, flats that needed to be bigger, more distributed, or more modern did not help to organise one’s time or daily activities (studying, working, exercising, or simply secluding oneself) in the best possible way. Redesigning the existing seems a possible solution, not by demolishing obsolete dwellings, but by adapting them through ‘light systems,’ i.e., through furnishings: an ‘expost’ intervention that can redevelop spaces by leveraging the concepts of transformability and flexibility. Lessons can be learned in this respect, from the history of modern housing to contemporary experience. The article broadly traces this history (with a look at the culture of Italian living) so that from experience, we can learn solutions for living in the future.eng
dc.description.abstractEntre los muchos problemas que ha puesto de manifiesto la reciente pandemia de CO-VID-19 está la inadecuación de muchas viviendas para alojar a las personas durante una emergencia sanitaria. Durante los diversos encierros, los pisos que debían ser más grandes, más distribuidos o más modernos no ayudaban a organizar el tiempo ni las actividades cotidianas (estudiar, trabajar, hacer ejercicio o simplemente recluirse) de la mejor manera po-sible. Rediseñar lo existente parece una posible solución, no demoliendo viviendas obsoletas, sino adaptándolas mediante un “sistema ligero”, come el mobiliario: una intervención “a posteriori” que puede reurbanizar los espacios aprovechando los conceptos de transformabilidad y flexibilidad. Se pueden extraer lecciones en este sentido, desde la historia de la vivienda moderna hasta la experiencia contemporánea. El artículo traza a grandes rasgos esta historia (con una mirada a la cultura de la vivienda italiana) para que, de la experiencia pasada, podamos aprender soluciones para vivir en el futuro.spa
dc.identifier.citationFORINO, Imma (2024) - Transformable furnishing : from "modern home" to contemporary house. Convergências : Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes. ISSN: 1646 - 9054. Vol.XVII, nº 34, p. 157-173. DOI: 10.53681/c1514225187514391s.34.262
dc.identifier.doi10.53681/c1514225187514391s.34.262
dc.identifier.issnISSN - 1646 - 9054
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.11/10045
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherIPCB. ESART
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://convergencias.esart.ipcb.pt
dc.relation.ispartofseriesConvergências : Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectFurnishing
dc.subjectTransformability
dc.subjectContemporary home
dc.subjectItalian design
dc.subjectMobiliario
dc.subjectTransformabilidad
dc.subjectCasa moderna y contemporánea
dc.subjectDiseño italiano
dc.titleTransformable furnishing : from "modern home" to contemporary houseeng
dc.title.alternativeMobiliario transformable : del "hogar moderno" a la casa contemporáneaspa
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage173
oaire.citation.issue34
oaire.citation.startPage157
oaire.citation.titleConvergências : Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes
oaire.citation.volumeVXII
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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