Beatriz Colomina: The 24/7 Bed

How does the convergence of smartphone technology, flexible working conditions, the rise of the gig economy, and young professionals’ nomadic lifestyles impact the significance of the bed as a site of labor, leisure, and surveillance? International lecture by professor Beatriz Colomina.

Professor Beatriz Colomina is an architectural historian and theorist who has written extensively on questions of architecture, art, technology, sexuality, and media. She has done research on the domestic built environment, privacy, and gender studies. Her research on the bed as an acute example of an emerging multifunctional place within the domestic realm has shown to become relevant once again during the pandemic.

Colomina will give a keynote lecture on the shifting role of the bed in a time when smartphones are the first and last things we touch every day.

About Beatriz Colomina
Beatriz Colomina is Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture Princeton University School of Architecture.