Designing Homeliness Everyday Practices of Care

"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