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The UK government tentatively plans to use hydrogen for domestic applications by 2035. While the use of hydrogen aims to reduce the dependence on hydrocarbons, certain factors need consideration. Since hydrogen is much lighter, and more reactive than methane, it is crucial to understand the change in risk for accident scenarios involving hydrogen in a domestic setting. Numerical modelling was used to simulate the leakage of hydrogen and methane in small, enclosed spaces such as kitchen cupboards. The k- ε turbulence model was used along with the species transport model to simulate the leakage of gas for different inlet locations and leak diameters (1.8 mm–7.2 mm). From the modelling study, it was observed that hydrogen and methane both tend to stratify from top of the control volume to the bottom. The key finding was that, under adverse conditions (leak from a 7.2 mm diameter hole) and due to greater volumetric flow, hydrogen tends to reach equilibrium concentration 45s faster than methane for a total leak duration of 600s. Additionally, it was noted that cases with leak inlet locations near corners had 28% lower hydrogen concentrations, and 25% lower methane concentrations as compared to leak inlet locations near the centre of the cupboard. • Hydrogen has the potential to be used as fuel for domestic applications. • Hydrogen and Methane leakages were visualised using k-ε model and species transport model. • Hydrogen leak from a 7.2 mm hole reached maximum concentration 45–300s faster than a 2.5 mm hole. • Hydrogen concentration in the idealised cupboard reached up to 25% in air compared to methane concentration in air (10%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the potential for using childhood memories shared on social media as a means of interrogating experiences of twentieth-century social historical geographies of home and family life. In so doing, the paper discusses briefly the value of children's perceptions as guests in others' homes as an insightful source of data, before exploring the value of social media as a place for sharing these recollections and accessing them as a researcher. The paper draws data from a thread on the popular UK-based parenting website and internet discussion space, 'Mumsnet', asking contributors to share the 'weirdest' thing they saw at someone else's house when they were a child. This paper positions social media research as an ethically, epistemologically and ontologically sound approach to creating data for geographical research, which has become well-established in other sub-disciplines. The paper seeks to explore what it is to remember intimate childhood experience alongside those whose memories might reflect or conflict with your own. Further, the paper addresses the way in which a social media thread created new narratives and uncovered long-buried memories which provide an insightful lens for exploring a particular domestic historical geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines transreligiosity in the context of the transmission of South Asian concepts of spirituality to the UK in the 20th century. Between the 1920s and 1990s, Indian teacher and author Phiroz Mehta (1902–1994) crossed borders in a colonial and postcolonial shuttling between India and the UK but also transgressed conceptual and practice borders of religion, teaching Indian religious concepts to post-Christian spiritual seekers in 1970s–80s South London. Mehta cultivated an elasticity between many religious and philosophical traditions, recognising the post-institutional fatigue of subjects who sought alternative forms of 'belonging without believing'. Privileging the domestic space for teaching, as well as transitory 'camp' gatherings in the UK and Germany, Mehta often operated in the social margins, combining teachings from Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity with Zoroastrianism, Judaism (specifically Kabbalah), and Daoism. He offered his tutees the freedom to practice religion in whatever way they chose by drawing on a broad range of traditions concurrently to create a transreligiosity. This paper examines Panagiotopoulos and Roussou's 'transgressional webs of practising individualised forms of alternative spirituality' in relation to Mehta's followers in the 1970s-1980s and asks how transreligiosity relates to other theoretical analyses, such as religious exoticism, bricolage, religious appropriation, cultural re-articulation or assemblage. This paper focuses on qualitative interviews with original members of the Mehta community conducted between 2021 and 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world placed communities under 'lockdown'. Various practices of consumption were uprooted from their instituted settings and re-rooted in homes. This unprecedented reorganisation of normality resulted in increased instances of domestic consumption as practices occurring in offices, gyms and eateries were forced into homes, demanding the acquisition of materials and altering expectations of what homes are for. This article contributes to literature on COVID-19 and practice-based consumption research by complicating optimistic narratives about the potential for this disruption to downsize the consumer economy. Combining qualitative household interviews, with secondary data about wider trends, and historical reflection on changes in the meaning of the 'home' in the UK, we reveal how the re-rooting of instituted practices structures material acquisition and spikes desire for more domestic space. Recognising that professional practices and institutions have taken on increasing significance for domestic consumption, with stay-at-home orders blurring boundaries between home, work and leisure, we conclude by arguing that future research and sustainability policy should attend more to the institutional qualities of practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Issues of domestic space standards and occupancy levels rarely receive much attention in debates about UK housing and planning policies. This is exemplified by examining the history of space and occupancy standards as applied in England, demonstrating that standards have been under-specified, partial in coverage, and applied inconsistently. The outcomes are seen in the production of relatively small homes, overcrowding and (perversely) extensive under-occupation, residential dissatisfaction and mobility. Evidence for the health and wellbeing impacts of space shortages highlights the consequences for infectious diseases, particularly respiratory illness, mental health and stress, and educational attainment. Moreover, the mediating and moderating roles of domestic space upon the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic show the crucial importance of space and occupancy standards for health, wellbeing and learning in a future where more time is spent at home. Areas of future research are identified which together could help address a probable underestimate of the current health sector costs of inadequate domestic space, this being an important lever for policy action. Such evidence, including crucially more from the UK itself, has an important role to play if stronger, more effective policies are to be developed and implemented in this area in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Industrial winter fogs posed an almost existential threat to filmmaking in Britain during the first decades of the twentieth century, disrupting outdoor or location filming, penetrating studio buildings and delaying production schedules and increasing costs. The problem was exacerbated by many British studios being located in, or on the outskirts of London, a city famous for its 'pea soupers'. This article, having outlined the nature and extent of the problem, explores the ways in which the British film industry responded to the fog. Some studios ceased operations in the winter, whilst some producers relocated to less meteorologically-challenging climes. Two other responses, however, allowed for year-round production in Britain: the installation of specially designed fog-dispersal plant, and the construction of new studios outside the London 'fog-zone.' Using fog to explore the impact of climate on the siting, design and equipping of British film studios, the article is intended to encourage recognition of the ways in which the spaces and infrastructure of film production develop in relation to specific local, regional or national level factors, and stimulate discussion of the relationship between filmmakers, studios and the natural (or, in the case of the London fog, anthropogenic) environments within which they operate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Germs have been visually represented in popular texts for over 100 years, yet little is understood about the dominant practices/concepts resident in such images. This article presents a new typology of popular germ representations from the UK consisting of three main types: Scientific, Carrier and Analogous. The first category pertains to the realm of the scientist, the second to domestic space and social norms, and the third primarily to the realm of the imagination. The study identifies a further 13 sub-types and discusses each in turn. The authors argue that a more varied range of germ images exist than the previous binary positioning of germ representations in the US would suggest. They account for the continued adoption of the Analogous Germ in relation to four key cultural forces and problematize the use of the Monster Germ and its alignment of ugliness and obesity with disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, there has been a risen interest in heat recovery systems for building applications due to concerns about the energy crisis and global climate change. In this paper, the intention to understand the performance of a window thermoelectric heat pump/heat recovery system (Ecopump) for heating has been developed. An overview to the prototype design, heat transfer model, experimental parameters and environmental feasibility is discussed. The variation of MATLAB modelling results followed the same regularity as the experimental results. The MATLAB model along with Revit has been used to simulate the Ecopump's performance when installed in a sustainable house in the UK. From the calculation, Ecopump can provide 670 kWh heating energy and reduce 90.6 kg CO2 emissions per year. The proposed Ecopump system combined with window frame could be a promising technology to enhance space heating for domestic buildings while reducing energy consumption during daily ventilation. Further in situ experiments should be conducted to explore its comprehensive performance in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers Victorian concerns about the rise of secret drinking amongst respectable women. These new, apparently dangerous, practices were blamed on licensed grocers and even railway station refreshment rooms. Understandings of different male and female natures went hand in glove with anxieties about the potential effects of drinking. That alcohol might be consumed in secret, at home, triggered concerns about the shameful state of womanhood and the risks for the domestic space and state of the family. This secrecy, and an apparent absence of reliable evidence as to the scale of the problem, is central to the methodological challenge and argument in this article. Using their knowledge of and putative responsibilities for the private sphere, women in the temperance movement organized against the grocer. The article analyses published accounts of women's work in the Church of England Temperance Society, the British Women's Temperance Association, and Women's Total Abstinence Union. It argues that their efforts, rooted in private and domestic imperatives, tested the social and spatial reach of women's reform work. Acting against the grocer helped women to articulate a distinctively public model of sober citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Focusing on everyday lives and relationships within the household, the purpose of this paper is to suggest that the quality of "home" is altered by the presence of animal companions. Conceptions of home as a haven have been critiqued on grounds of the elision of power relations, yet home has also been understood as a place of resistance to, and refuge from, an exploitative and exclusionary public world. Acknowledging differentiated relations of power and understanding homemaking as a process, this paper investigates the playing out of species relations within home space. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on empirical material from a study of companion species in households and public spaces, deploying ethnographic material gained through extended observation and semi-structured and often mobile interviews with dog "owners" in urban and rural contexts in the UK. Findings: Dogs transform domestic space through muddying human lives. This process is twofold. First, life in posthumanist households problematizes boundaries between humans and other creatures in terms of relationships, behaviour and use of space. Second, muddied living involves breaching and maintaining domestic order. Muddied living is characterised by tension, power and compromise. Homes are posthuman not just by including non-human animals, but through elements of dog agency in how home is made. Originality/value: Little has been written of "home" within sociology, despite "home" capturing a range of social practice. Sociologists examining human–animal companion relations have not considered how relations play out in home space. This paper investigates home as a shared space of multispecies interaction, making the case for a posthuman sociology of home. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the changing nature of home for disabled ex-servicemen in the Second World War. It explores the function of institutional and domestic space in the restoration of traditional male roles. Masculine activities were encouraged in the long-stay institution, as men attempted to overcome their disability and be found suitable to resume a place in a traditional domestic home. Owing to war damage, finding housing was particularly challenging for disabled men, but a combination of the influence of the British Legion, donations from the public, and their preference to memorialize the war through the building of homes increased the possibility of living in a traditional domestic space. The building, alteration, and occupation of homes reinforced certain modes of behavior and expectations of disabled veterans, cementing the central, traditional role of men in postwar Britain. Importantly, freedom from institutional living came through traditional relationships with women and the production of children. This analysis of the home in its many configurations offers insight into disabled ex-servicemen, demonstrating that the institutional and domestic spaces that constitute home are as important in understanding masculinity as other traditionally gendered spaces such as the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reconsiders the way that the British state extended its control of the home during the Second World War, using the implementation of air raid precautions and the blackout as a lens through which to view the state's developing attitudes to domestic space. Presented here is not the familiar story of pitch-dark, dangerous streets or altered cityscapes of fear and destruction; instead, by examining personal testimony the article inverts traditional treatments of the blackout to look at the interior of dwellings, demonstrating how the realities of total warfare impinged upon the psychological elements that constituted the home. What emerges not only expands historical understandings of the wartime experience of civilians, it also shows civil defence measures as highly visible points on an often antagonistic trajectory of state interactions with citizens concerning the privacy and security of the dwelling in the modern city. The requirements of civil defence, I argue, were not merely the product of exceptional wartime circumstances, but symptomatic of long-standing attempts to open up dwellings to state scrutiny. These attempts had both a significant prewar lineage and, crucially, implications beyond the end of the war in private homes and on social housing estates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The use of green hydrogen was explored with a Life Cycle approach. • 3 energy systems were compared based on 16 environmental impact categories. • Result uncertainties were investigated via error propagation. • The use phase contributes 91 % of the impact of the three energy systems. • The gas heat pump shows a lower climate profile in the short-term future scenario. The hydrogen vector stands as a potentially important tool to achieve the decarbonization of the energy sector. It represents an option to store the periodic excesses of energy generation from renewable electrical sources to be used as it is as a substitute for fossil fuels in some applications or reconverted into electricity when needed. In this context, hydrogen can significantly decarbonize the building sector as an alternative fuel for gas-driven devices. Along with hydrogen, the European strategic vision indicates the electrification of heat among the main energy transition pathways. The potential environmental benefits achievable from renewable hydrogen in thermally-driven appliances and the electrification of residential heat through electric heat pumps were evaluated and compared in this work. The novelty of the research consists of a consequential comparative life cycle assessment (16 impact categories) evaluation for three buildings (old, old retrofitted, and new) supplied by three different appliances (condensing boiler, gas absorption heat pump, and electric heat pump), never investigated before. The energy transition was evaluated for 2020 and 2030 scenarios, considering the impact of gaseous fuels (natural gas and European green hydrogen) and electricity based on the pathway of the European electricity grid (27 European member states plus the United Kingdom). The results allowed to compare the environmental profile in deterministic and stochastic approaches and confirm if the increase of renewables reduces the impact in the operational phase of the appliances. The results demonstrate that despite the increased renewable share, the use phase remains the most significant for both temporal scenarios, contributing to 91% of the environmental profile. Despite the higher footprint in 2020 compared to the electric heat pump (198–200 vs. 170–196 gCO 2 eq/kWh th), the gas absorption heat pump offered a lower environmental profile than the others in all the scenarios analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing upon narrative and visual ethnographic data collected from households in the UK, this article explores the material and emotional geographies of the domestic kitchen. Acknowledging that emotions are dynamically related and coconstitutive of place, rather than presenting the kitchen as a simple backdrop against which domestic life is played out, the article illustrates how decisions regarding the design and layout of the kitchen and the consumption of material artefacts are central to the negotiation and doing of relationships and accomplishment of domestic life. Based on fieldwork in northern England, the article examines the affective potential of domestic space and its material culture, exploring how individuals are embodied in the fabric and layout of domestic space, and how memories may be materialized in their absence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Low consumption of housing and housing inequality has generally been measured through absolute rather than relative standards. This paper develops a relative measure of housing space consumption and applies it to England and Wales for 1911–2011. Over this period, the population grew by half, but the number of rooms tripled. The rate of low absolute housing consumption (overcrowding) fell from 49% to 4%. However, using the Gini coefficient, inequality in housing space was almost unchanged. Using inequality definitions more sensitive to the bottom of the distribution, the century splits into two parts. Housing space inequality reduced steadily from the 1920s to the 1980s, but then the trend reversed, and by 2011 inequality had returned to levels not seen for fifty years or more. This rise in housing space inequality warrants attention. Possible explanations include increased income inequality, a reduction in social housing, the rise of one person households, and development of larger homes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prediction of heat demand is of distinct importance for policy planning in social housing, where residents are in higher danger of falling into fuel poverty. Understanding the behavioural response of fuel vulnerable households against weather allows generating accurate baseline energy models and estimations of energy savings. This paper evaluates weekly heat demand profiles of 462 social housing dwellings in five tower blocks in the South of the UK, monitored over two years. Linear and segmented regressions are fitted through the 'segmented' package in R Studio to explore the relationship between heat demand (including Domestic Hot Water and space heating) and Outdoor Temperature, generating energy signature models for each flat. Three distinct heat demand profiles are found: (i) households that do not use space heating (11%), (ii) irregular consumers, where the transition towards the heating season is not identifiable (33%), and (iii) households with marked seasonal thresholds (56%). Consumption trends as well as the effect of extremely weather events such as the 2018 storm 'The Beast from the East' on the heat demand are evaluated. Low consuming households show little to no variation in their demand patterns during extreme weather events, whereas higher consumers seem to reach a plateau in their demand even at extremely low temperatures. The variability of heat demand in dwellings which have identical physical properties, and are exposed to the same weather conditions, is attributed to occupant behaviour. This study highlights the heterogeneity of heat demand in social housing and the need to move away from national averages. • Energy signature models of heat demand for 462 social housing dwellings. • Heat demand, including space heating and Domestic Hot Water was less than 80 KWh/m2 year. • The proportion of households that do not use space heating is higher than national averages. • Observed basepoint temperature between 12 °C and 14 °C in 50% of the households. • Heterogeneity in heat demand is attributed to occupant behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers a series of challenges to homemaking in a post-industrial urban neighborhood in the UK, analyzing the local contextualization of domestic space. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with a diverse range of residents, the article investigates what happens when the forces of "outside" move into the "private" space of the home. Starting with a discussion of the neighborhood in question and the associated contexts of high population turnover and the local housing market, it progresses to focus on three material examples of the tension between inside and outside: the threshold sites of windows and doors, the situation of the renting resident, and home possessions themselves. Ultimately, the article illustrates the high levels of porosity of domestic space, arguing that inside the home cannot be understood without reference to both the immediate contexts of the street and wider structural economic forces, and highlighting the value of using material culture for investigating these issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses narrative accounts of private gardens in Britain from the Mass-Observation Archive (MO) to explore ideas of landscape, privacy and attachment that emerge from daily practices and routines in these ordinary domestic spaces. We argue for the domestic garden as a vernacular or ordinary landscape that displays tensions between the private and the public nature of home within ambivalent emotional responses. Extended personal narratives offer privileged access to a site of intense engagement and carefully guarded privacy, yet with varying levels of attachment. The garden is a space well described in Britain in its public form but less well known as a private, everyday landscape. In this way a cultural landscape study becomes a contemporary critical geography of an ordinary space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proliferation of general and specialist hospitals, lunatic asylums, and workhouse infirmaries in the nineteenth century challenged the popular perception of the home as a suitable site of health care. Amidst the emergence of yet another type of institution, the tuberculosis sanatorium, tuberculosis control in the Edwardian period was re-sited and re-scaled to accommodate what might be termed a 'preventive therapy' of domestic space. Three interlinked perspectives demonstrate why and how this happened. First, I explore the role of the national and local state in legitimating domestic space as a scale and a site for the regulation of tuberculosis patients and prevention of the disease. Second, I investigate how tuberculosis self-help manuals promoted a technology of the self that was founded largely on the principles of sanatorium therapy but was necessarily reconfigured to reflect the social relations of domestic space. Third, I assess the marketing of consumer goods to the domiciled tuberculosis sufferer through the pages of the British Journal of Tuberculosis. It is suggested that a common tubercular 'language' of material consumption was fashioned in order to normalise the accumulation of possessions for use in the home. These arguments are situated in relation to recent historical research on material culture and identity at the turn of the twentieth century, which has stressed the cultivation of individuality and that the right sort of possessions appropriately arranged in domestic space signified well-regulated morality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the politics of diasporic dwelling in domestic spaces. Heidegger'sconcept of 'dwelling' is popular in studies of diasporic life as it articulates a sense ofbelonging in mobility without the problematic connotations of rootedness conjured upby 'home'. However, the way Heidegger's 'dwelling' functions in diasporic contexts israrely considered, an absence this article seeks to address by exploring the concept inmore detail, focusing in particular on 'the fourfold' and preservation. This discussion isgrounded in the domestic spaces of two Palestinian women living in Britain. Drawingon in-depth interviews, the article explores how these women's houses, and particularspaces within them, enable and constrain their dwelling. I argue for greater attention tobe paid to the expansive and integrative capacities of domestic space and demonstratethe need to address houses in their social context and as internally heterogeneous. Thisarticle also contributes to ongoing debates about material and symbolic dwelling anddiasporic identities that include but also exceed territorialised belonging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an examination into family practices seen within working-class households in Victorian-era Great Britain which were labeled through generational and gendered paradigms. Discussion is particularly given analyzing the grandfather clock and the father's chair as ritually defined features of homes. The work of sociologist John Gillis regarding the creation of hierarchies of family life and working class employment within the domestic space is referenced and applied to the examples.

This paper presents a method of generating realistic electricity load profile data for the UK domestic buildings. The domestic space features have been investigated excluding the heating and hot water systems. A questionnaire survey was conducted and the feedback were collected from a number of occupants at different intervals of times on daily bases in order to establish the probabilistic record of the estimated use of electrical appliances. The model concept of this study also considers the results of previous investigations such as that available in public reports and statistics as input data elements to predict the global domestic energy consumption. In addition, the daily load profile from individual dwelling to community can be predicted using this method. The result of the present method was compared to available published data and has shown reasonable agreement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the significant role played by cultural capital in understanding housing in Great Britain. It provides an analysis on actual housing in the country by conducting an interview to households through the utilization of a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). The author explores the material aspects of housing and the decoration preferences of individuals in the development of homes which depict their dream house and position in the society. It was found that personal resources and imagination of dwellings are associated to culture capital.

This paper begins with two observations: that UK homes appear to have accumulated increasing numbers of domestic technologies, yet new houses are smaller, on average, than those built before 1980. The spatial pressures placed on homes that result from the accumulation of technologies are explored by drawing upon forty household interviews which enquired into the domestic organisa- tion of kitchen and bathroom technologies and practices. Many households have responded to such spatial pressures by extending or reformulating their domestic spaces: such that kitchens are becom- ing increasingly multifunctional spaces and bathrooms are multiplying. It is argued that these trends are not simply driven by an unstoppable tide of material possession but reflect context-specific arrangements related to the temporal and ideological structuring of domestic practices. Technologies and practices coevolve with the result that new demands are made on homes-the commodities and objects with which we live our lives influence our experience of space and the value placed on different physical configurations. Domestic technologies are therefore implicated in the structure and reproduction of practice and hence in the choreography of things and people in time and space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the ways in which space was actively and consciously being made in the Mesolithic era in Great Britain. It explores how people made themselves at home through objects and considers why most of these objects were not carried by people during the Mesolithic. The article also reveals how material culture and landscape crosses and promotes the understanding of space that is mobile and yielded through force. The author suggests that occupants left things behind in the Mesolithic home culture in order to establish the possibility for future connections, making the objects "homeless."

Assembling 10 essays from around the globe which engage variously with the space in which food preparation occurs - the kitchen - revealed stunning diversity but also commonalities. In this first of two sets of theme papers on this vital but often unexamined domestic space, the discourse of modernity unites the look and use of twentieth-century kitchens in Australia, Britain and Finland. Imbued with notions of scientific management, the modern kitchen had some common designs which prescribed women's place within it - first as the main occupant and then as the family overseer. The construction of this semi-private space also involved particular domestic technologies which, as the new century dawns, now literally connect the kitchen to the world beyond via the internet fridge. This Introduction begins the two-part feast of gender, place and culture - with an overview of Australia and sketch of subsequent essays - Supski on mid-century migrant Australia, Saarikangas on Finland, Bennett on rural Britain and Watkins on the fridge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the power relations that identified a farming family through a particular farmhouse kitchen in Dorset, England. Studying this kitchen space was important, because on one hand it embodied a systemic sense of power, symbolising patrilineal inheritance with its ownership passed through male hands. Memories and voices haunted its space and pieces of inherited family furniture dominated its configuration, resisted change and defined performances. On the other hand, kitchen space exposed the complexity of power relations as household members were simultaneously disciplined by it and affected its substance. An episode of kitchen life illustrates this paper based on participant observation of a farming family in Dorset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines discourses and practices of storage and clutter relation to the social construction of the home in contemporary Britain. The role of storage practices has been overlooked in much of the literature on consumption material culture, design and the home. And yet, especially since the 1990s, there has been an explosion in popular cultural forms of discussions and representations of the home. While much of this has explored the domestic worlds of design, decoration and DIY more generally, a large number of books have focused specifically on storage as the antidote to what is perceived as the growing problem of clutter in the contemporary home. Through an analysis of these storage texts we show that even though they wrap up their ideas in a popular psychology of personal therapy, they do provide some insights useful for discussions of issues related to consumption, material culture and domestic design. More fundamentally, they reveal that the home needs to be conceptualized not simply as a place for living, but also as a set of spaces, channels and flows, as objects and people find their way into, through, and sometimes out of, the home. We argue that at the heart of these discourses is a limited conceptualization of time and space and a desire to make spaces and objects present and manageable. We then contrast these discourses with everyday practices of storage and clutter in the home. Based on original research data, we argue that time and space need to be analysed as multiple and layered, as objects are subject to various practices of dispersal, divestment and displacement in the gaps between consumption as acquisition, use and their eventual disposal. As a result, clutter needs to be understood not merely as the underside of storage, but also as part of an iterative spatio-temporal ordering of home and identity that follows the traces left behind by the dynamic of storage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]