The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic
life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the
dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology
might free us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site
of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those
visions? Are the smart homes of today the future that architects
and designers once predicted, or has 'home' proved resistant to
radical change? Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow
-accompanying a major Design Museum exhibition of the same
title-explores a number of different attitudes toward domestic
life, tracing the social and technological developments that have
driven change in the home. It proposes that we are already living
in yesterday's tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted. This
book begins with a lavishly illustrated catalogue portraying the
'home futures' of the twentieth century and beyond, from the work
of Ettore Sottsass and Joe Colombo to Google's recent forays into
the smart home. The catalogue is followed by a reader consisting of
newly commissioned essays by writers such as Dan Hill and Justin
McGuirk, which explore the changes in the domestic realm in
relation to space, technology, society, economy and psychology.
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