SPACE10 releases The Healthy Home report Protect, restore, enable: SPACE10’s new report outlines the building blocks of tomorrow’s healthy home

On August 9, IKEA’s research and design lab SPACE10 shares The Healthy Home report, the second release in its Future Home report series. This new report shares how our future homes can protect us from harm, restore our bodies and minds, and enable us to grow through life’s stages. Taking a kaleidoscopic view of health, the report explores these three themes as the foundation of homes that better support and enable us to live healthy, happy, and fulfilling lives. The Healthy Home report can be read here.

‘Notions of health, care, and happiness are guiding principles for how many of us want to live. Yet, in the context of surging healthcare expenses, a growing elderly population, and disconnections between people and their kin, we must reconsider how health and care fit into our daily lives — and how our homes can play a supporting role. Pillars of health such as rest, nourishment, a sense of belonging, and personal growth will be increasingly integrated into how we live.’

— Ivan Korolev, Research and Strategy, SPACE10

To answer the question of what a healthy home is, SPACE10 looked beyond pure functionality and considered how the space we call home can better support us through the rhythms, flows and stages of life. The report examines how homes can better support the health and well-being challenges that many people face, such as planetary heating, pollution, security, nourishment, and loneliness, against a backdrop of population longevity and growth.

Highlighting ideas, innovations, and solutions from around the world, the report outlines tangible examples of dwellings that are better for us. From open-source DIY air purifiers that anyone can build in under an hour to furniture that inspires play and social interactions, and architecture that connects humans with the local biome, the report is an invitation to use health as a guiding principle across a wide range of design disciplines.

SPACE10 worked with creative collective Morph to unfold visuals in the report that capture candid moments and daily routines of people in their homes. The visual outcome is an intimate narrative depicting tenderness, tranquillity, and collective acts of care that can be found or created at home.

Within the report, SPACE10 outlines 10 ways that tomorrow’s homes can better support people in their quest for healthier lives, alongside design opportunities for architects, designers and creatives working in the domestic space.

10 Takeaways

• Climatic: Anticipate shifts in temperature and humidity and maintain a safe environment.
• Pollution: Protect residents from contaminated air and water through enhanced routines or products.
• Privacy: Balance people’s privacy and security at home with calmer connectivity.
• Rest: Make arrangements for rest and sleep that consider all our senses.
• Sustenance: Adapt the kitchen to support everybody in the preparation of nourishing food.
• Hygiene: Harmonise personal hygiene with the domestic biome to boost well-being.
• Play: Facilitate play, exercise and learning for all, and promote intergenerational interactions.
• Community Care: Promote acts of collective care and co-healing to combat loneliness.
• Ageing: Support ageing by allowing space and furniture to be reconfigured with ease.
• Interconnected: A healthy home is also regenerative and inclusive, meaning it’s better for people and the planet.

‘It’s now up to us — creatives, architects, designers — to integrate health into everything we do. As our report uncovers, the shifting role of the designer is to become a care practitioner in their own right.’

— Ivan Korolev, Research and Strategy, SPACE10

A press package with images can be found here. For further information, please contact Sofia Clarke at sofia@space10.com. To discover more SPACE10 reports, visit SPACE10.com.

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ABOUT SPACE10

SPACE10 is a research and design lab on a mission to create a better everyday life for people and the planet. SPACE10 is proudly supported by and entirely dedicated to the IKEA Brand. SPACE10 operates independently to bring an outside-in perspective to the IKEA Brand. The role of SPACE10 is to qualify new opportunities, inform strategies, build new partnerships, and design new solutions to create a better everyday life for both people and the planet.

ABOUT IKEA

IKEA offers well-designed, functional and affordable, high-quality home furnishing, produced with care for people and the environment. Today, 12 different groups of companies own and operate IKEA sales channels in more than 60 markets across the world, under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. There are several companies with different owners, working under the IKEA brand, all sharing the same vision: To create a better everyday life for the many people. IKEA was founded by Ingvar Kamprad in Älmhult, Sweden, in 1943.

ABOUT MORPH

Morph is a production company, based in Copenhagen and Berlin. The company represents visual artists, develops and produces image-based projects and hosts community-led exhibitions and events. Our work spans across personal, communal and commercial projects.

Contact Details

Space10

Sofia Clarke

sofia@space10.com