Author Archives: Alison J Clarke

Plastic fantastic: Tupperware parties

By Alison J Clarke 25 January 2022 Essays

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Utterly ubiquitous and deeply embedded within social networks, Tupperware emerged as an object of desire to shape the field of kitchen consumption

Play the system: labour, leisure and normal life

29 April 2021 By Smith Mordak

Instigating a new ethics of play is urgently overdue across work, architecture…

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Workers’ playtime: leisure as an antidote to work

25 May 2021 By Edwina Attlee

The distance between work and leisure is elastic, from the parks of…

The Rotating Kitchen, 2009, Zeger Reyers

Kitchen debate: where labour and leisure collide

6 January 2022 By Marianna Janowicz

The contemporary open-plan kitchen may seem a utopian landscape of leisure, but…

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From doma to daidokoro: Japanese kitchens

12 January 2022 By Michelle L Hauk

As it surrendered to standardisation, the Japanese kitchen raised and homogenised its…

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The Iranian kitchen with three doors

13 January 2022 By Samaneh Moafi

In a sparse and brutalist housing complex on a naval base in…

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Here’s one I made earlier: television kitchens

27 January 2022 By Ellen Peirson

The television kitchen teaches a rapacious audience how to live, as well as how…

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