Domestic time in the sensory home

the textures and rhythms of knowing, practice, memory and imagination

Sarah Pink

pp. 184-200

in: Emily Keightley (ed), Time, media and modernity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Abstract

This chapter is about how time is constituted and experienced through the living out of everyday life in the intimate, sensory and affective context of the domestic home. Its theoretical concerns build on recent interest in the production of time through practice,¹ "ways of knowing" in practice² and formulations of place that account for movement.³ If knowing is situated in practice,⁴ if time is produced through practice,⁵ and if place is constituted through movement,⁶ then to understand the production of temporalities these theoretical concepts need to be mutually engaged. This chapter is an experiment in this engagement.