Architectural historian Beatriz Colomina wants to know what people get up to in bed ? it will affect the way we design cities in the future, she says.
Colomina, who is a professor at Princeton University, has hosted two events she calls bed-ins, to explore the role of the bed in the architecture of the digital age.
The combination of smart-phone technology, the flexible and untethered nature of work, the sharing economy, and the rise of co-living has given the "horizontal architecture" of the bed a new significance, she claims.
"With our phones, or lives have changed," Colomina told Dezeen.
"Cities that we inhabit now are the result of the huge transformation in our lives with the arrival of industrialisation, the separation of the place of living and the place of work, and the idea that you leave the home to work," she told Dezeen. Most young people work from bed
The project started after Colomina read an article in the Wall Street Journal that shocked her, stating that 80 per cent of young professionals were working from their beds.
She has since written several texts exploring what architecture should look like now that the nine-to-five office is no longer the typical workplace, including The Century of the Bed and The 24/7 Bed.
The "horizontal architecture" of the bed has a new significance in the digital age, says Beatriz Colomina. Photograph is by Daria Scagliola
"Our cities should already be changing," she said. ...