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• Contents

Foreword
Bryan K. Sanderson, Home Renaissance Foundation

Foreword
Carlos P. Cavallé, Social Trends Institute

Preface
Richard Layard

Introduction: Happiness and Domestic Life
Maria Teresa Russo

Part 1: DOMESTIC HAPPINESS BETWEEN THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPHERES

1. The Impact of Domestic Happiness on Public Space

Agnieska Nogal

2. Care, Flourishing, Happiness: The Challenge at Home

María Pía Chirinos

3. Home After/During/Around the Pandemic of Individualism

Aneta Gawkowska

Part 2: TECHNOLOGY, DOMESTICATION AND WELL-BEING IN THE HOME

4. Home Implosion: Digital Media and the Reinvention of the Private Sphere

Maria Bakardjieva

5. Creating Meaningful Connected　Homes: The Relationships and Dynamics of Household-Digital Technology Interactions in Fostering Wellbeing

Bridgette Wessels

6. Smart Homes and Domestic Wellbeing: What has been Lost?

Ilaria Malagrinò

Part 3: HOME LIFE, FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND NEW WAYS OF WORKING

7. Home Activities and Happiness: Assessments based on Meeting Points between Human Resources Retention Practices and Stages of Happiness

Óscar Díaz, Celia Martín & Miriam Herrero

8. How do the New Work-Related Digital Technologies allow for Maximum Opportunities for those Home Activities and Connections, that will lead to Greater Individual Happiness?

Kathleen Farrell

9. The Home: A Creative Laboratory during Covid-19

Maria Chiara De Nardo

10. Positive Parenting in Covid-19 Times

Marc Grau-Grau, Rita Cavallotti & Rejina M Selvam

Part 4: HAPPY DWELLING? CRITICALITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF CHANGES IN URBAN LIVING

11. The “kitchenless house”: radical changes in home design and their impact on human well-being

Stephen Davies

12. The “Neighbourhood” as a Pivotal Element of the Infrastructure of a Flourishing Society

David Thunder & Cecilia Serrano-Núñez

13. Architecture in Between: Social Change and Happiness Cross-Temporal Analysis of Urban Living in Twentieth Century Iraq

Ali Aumran Lattif Al-Thahab