ISSN 2611-3872 N.4 DEC 2020 (PANDEMIC ISSUE) EDITOR IN CHIEF Arch. Maria Maddalena Margaria SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Prof. Valeria Minucciani - POLYTECHNIC OF TURIN Dr. Katelijn Quartier - UNIVERSITY OF HASSELT Prof. Francesca Murialdo - MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Prof. Penny Sparke - KINGSTON UNIVERSITY Prof. Elena Dellapiana - POLITECNICO DI TORINO Prof. Ricardo Guasch Ceballos - ELISAVA Prof. Graeme Brooker - RCA LONDON Prof. Els de Vos - ANTWERPEN UNIVERSITY WWW.INNEMAGAZINE.ORG COVER AND DESIGN: DARIOBOVERO.IT LIVING IN A PANDEMIC STATE: HOW INTERIORS FACE TO ISOLATION (PANDEMIC ISSUE) Index 6 HOME OR ‘PANOPTIC’ SPACE OF WORK WRITTEN BY Pierluigi Panza, Faculty Design Sciences, University Antwerp 14 UTILIZING DESIGN CREATIVITY TO PROTECT AND CONNECT IN PANDEMIC TIMES WRITTEN BY Ashlyn Powers Assoc. AIA, Assoc. IIDA Pipa Bradbury ASID, NCIDQ, Illinois Registered Interior Designer #161.003564 20 PANDEMIC AND POST PANDEMIC. THE ANNUS HORRIBILIS AND THE DISCIPLINARY RE-CONSTITUTION WRITTEN BY Pier Federico Caliari 31 POST PANDEMIC INTERIORS - THE DESIGN INTERNS’ VISTA WRITTEN BY Mani Makhija Student of IV year of Architecture of School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India 38 SPECTRUM OF SPATIAL MANIFESTATIONS IN HOMES, DURING A PANDEMIC AUTHOR: Deepiga Kameswaran Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Dr.MGR Educational & Research Institute Chennai. CO AUTHOR: Anil Ravindranathan Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Dr. MGR Educational & Research Institute Chennai. 50 HEALTHIER LIVING SPACES ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION WRITTEN BY Clelia Maria Bonardi Dott.ssa in Architecture 58 THE CHANGE IN INTERIOR SPACE AND THE CONCEPT OF WELL-BEING IN RELATION TO THE NEW CORONAVIRUS WRITTEN BY Nilufer Saglar Onay HOME OR ‘PANOPTIC’ SPACE OF WORK WRITTEN BY Pierluigi Panza Faculty Design Sciences, University Antwerp Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) Abstract he timing of the renewal of labour strategies in the global market is too rapid for private housing, if it has a future, to adapt to it T every time. Instead, housing - as stabilised in its various forms since the advent of the Agricultural Society onwards - can be rethought starting from certain variables in the world of production that appear less unstable: • The partial downsizing of the sharing policies that seemed unstoppable; • The survival of smart-working because it allows a downsizing of busi- ness spaces, that is, a saving; • The introduction of new forms of control of work, worker and individual through telematics and polysystem tools. How can these guidelines affect Walter Benjamin’s “old” idea of home as the home of the individual? How do we support them and in which way can we counteract them by exposing their regressive aspects? Certainly, this scenario will impact at least on three levels: the physical one (use of spaces and planning adaptations), the psychological one (how to involve other people in the house or exclude them, how to support our psycholo- gical resources) and relational (how to welcome any guests, how to im- prove the technologies “to see each other”). What we want to study here from a theoretical point of view is, above all, the third variable, that is the impact that monitoring, control and production systems can have in a home. For the theoretical reflection on architecture, however, what matters is to carry out a critical act of “warning” against these additional transfor- mations. We can assume that in the post-pandemic phase, productive ca- pitalism will seek to take over, progressively and surreptitiously, private housing as a new place of work, control of the individual and production. And so will do central control systems, such as medical or financial ones. 7 INNER MAGAZINE Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) Introduction - from are also being tested Italy with job-sharing or agi- le work solutions, have been completely called into contamination in the office question by Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Forced into sud- den lockdown, the new passwords of the labor orga- to smart working at home nizers have changed, becoming “home-working” and “remote”. arissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, in February In fact, three types of workers are emerging. The 2013 rejected the implementation of “Mobile worker” is a worker who does not have a work-from-home models by forcing em- M desk and can use common space in a site: for this ployees to work at Silicon Valley offices. A note sent to worker his own home remains a safe haven. The se- all employees read: “To become the best place ever to cond type of worker is the homeworker and he wor- work, communication and collaboration will be im- ks exclusively from home. The homeworker must portant, so we need to work side by side. That’s why submit to the company the documents of his home it’s crucial that we’re all in our offices. Some of the (floor plan, certificates of habitability and plant com- best decisions and insights come from discussions pliance) which are examined by the company’s HSE held in the hallways and cafeteria, from meeting function. This also carries out an inspection of the new people, and from impromptu team meetings”1 home to determine if it is suitable for homeworking But these solutions based on “contamination”, which and to choose the workstation position in a room. 1. A.GATTARA and F.GUIDI, Empatia degli spazi, “Position Paper”, n.11, Milano, ottobre 2013. 8 The company also provides the homeworker with planning adaptations), the psychological one furniture and ICT equipment, consisting of an ergo- (how to involve other people in the house or nomic chair, a desk and hires technicians to install exclude them, how to support our psychological a Wi-Fi system in the home: it is clear that this type resources) and relational (how to welcome any of work profoundly affects the home, which is “sha- guests, how to improve the technologies “to see red” with the company. The Smart worker can carry each other”). This study also intends to carry out out his work not only from home, like the homewor- a critical operation, to “warn” about the third of ker, but from any non-public place with private WiFi: these aspects, which involves the issue of control also in this case his activity can affect the use of the over the individual after the irruption of the office home. into the domestic space. The goal is to show how to design an interior will henceforth have to deal In his article entitled We’re not going back to nor- (also disciplinarily) with regulatory systems not mal published in “MIT Technology Review”, Gideon only architectural, but which concern the world of Lichfield recalled how many of the practices that work and digital and privacy regulations. broke into the lockdown “won’t go back to normal in a few weeks, or even a few months. Some thin- gs never will”2. These include smart working, (and, obviously, homeworking), which promotes business Theme - a panottic house: do savings and has been accepted or appreciated by em- ployees, perhaps also for induced reasons, which is they look at me at home? not the case to discuss here. As evidence of this, we report the data of a survey conducted by the Digital Transformation Agency of Lombardy3 on a sample of 6,500 workers (55% in the public sector and 45% The new forms of home-working and “social spa- in the private sector). 51% of those who had already ce” will lead, from the point of view of territorial tried smart working said they were “more producti- distribution, to a rediscovery of the countrysi- ve” while among new smart workers 57% said they de and to an occupation of spaces that were less were less productive. However, 94% of respondents used and therefore considered safer (contrarily to said they were ready to continue with “working from what previously thought), favoring a demographic home”. The impact of smart working on workplace sprawl. and domestic affairs emerged from the questionnai- With regard to large housing sizes and types, re: 43% of workers in the private sector and 37% of apart from a rediscovery - almost nostalgic - of the public sector stated that “separating work and premises that had been deleted (entrance, corri- leisure” was one of the difficulties. Smart working is dor, ...), it is incomplete to speak only in terms putting worker, home and work in a fluid condition.4 of square meters or equipment tools. It is not a This condition of work and domestic use of the apart- matter of thinking only about how to create a new ment on the one hand highlights a better well-being open-space or not, technologically connected and for the lower stress recorded (52% of workers without functional, healthy and, perhaps, located inside a children and 45% of those with children say they are building or a residential complex with collective “less stressed”) but, on the other hand, the intrusion sanitary facilities. of the home office revolutionizes its statutes and also becomes a form of remote control of the home space In the post-pandemic phase, productive capitali- of the worker.5 sm will seek to take over, progressively and sur- reptitiously, private housing as a new place of This paper aims to show how these new guidelines work, control of the individual and production. So will taken in the field of work with theCoronavirus SARS- do central control systems, such as medical or finan- CoV-2. affect Walter Benjamin’s “old” idea of home as cial ones. On this one must be “on guard”. the home of the individual.6 Philosophy had already dealt with this theme of the Certainly, this scenario will impact at least on end of private space, in one case by linking it to the three levels: the physical one (use of spaces and overcoming of the idea of ​​habitation in capitalist so- 2.