Dwelling in a Time of Social Distancing

As a core scholar on the STAY HOME project, Nicholas Thomas Lee’s post doctorial research project entitled, 'Dwelling in a Time of Social Distancing' examines the unprecedented demands that the Covid-19 flu pandemic has placed on the private home interior and its architectural arrangement.

Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation STAY HOME is conducted by an interdisciplinary team from the Faculties of Theology and Humanities (University of Copenhagen), the Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation and the IT University of Copenhagen. Through artistic research methods, Nicholas Thomas Lee explores the morphology of the domestic interior, the potential of threshold spaces and polyvalent places through the design of an archive of prospective dwelling prototypes, which take the form of physical scale models and 1:1 spatial probes.

About Nicholas Thomas Lee
Nicholas Thomas Lee, PhD, Architect MAA is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Design. With an academic and professional background in both architecture and design Lee’s research interests occupy the fertile domain between these disciplines, with a particular focus on the domestic interior. 

Nicholas Thomas Lee is particularly concerned with In-between places within, thresholds between, and the spatial taxonomy of domestic landscapes. The Royal Danish Academy- Center for Interior Research provides a platform for Lee to undertake artistic investigations into prospective ‘Dwellscapes’ within a collaborative interdisciplinary environment that envelopes the anthropological, the historical, as well as the tectonic.