At Home with Children: Liveable Space for the COVID-19 challenge

这项研究的重点是，通过家庭物理空间这一显而易见的因素，疫情对儿童、青少年及其家庭造成的不平衡的心理和社会影响。许多研究质疑家是“避风港”的概念，认为家庭空间也是家庭冲突和协商的地方。COVID-19加剧了这一挑战。随着流行病的兴衰起伏成为一种潜在的长期现实，随着时间的推移，职业密度的增加和家庭生活规范的破坏，将使儿童及其家庭的“宜居性”超出原来的能力，影响到心理健康、生产力和福祉。通过一项全国性的调查和对儿童和成人家庭成员的经验描述，本研究探讨了社会经验、心理健康和日常家庭空间之间的相互关系。该研究侧重于住宅在复杂的家庭/学校/工作条件下的宜居性，还捕捉了为应对COVID-19而出现的弹性空间形式，以更好地支持家庭的社会和心理健康。这些创造性的回应将通过共同设计过程综合起来，形成一个以证据为基础的“家庭黑客工具包”，直接广泛传播给家庭。更广泛的调查结果将为紧急决策提供信息，通过确定对家庭构成最大挑战的家庭环境和社会空间情景，更好地支持面临大流行心理和社会影响风险的人。对于长期的结构影响，数据还将允许英国国内空间标准的测试，为当代“流行病准备”的环境创造一个重要的资源，为宜居住宅提供信息。

This study focuses on the uneven psychological and social impact of the pandemic on children, young people and their families through the hidden-in-plain-sight factor of physical domestic space. Many studies challenge the idea of home as a 'haven', arguing that domestic space is also a place of family conflict and negotiation. This challenge has been exacerbated by COVID-19. As a pattern of epidemic ebb and flow becomes a potential long-term reality, increased density of occupation over time and disrupted home-life norms will see the 'liveability' of dwellings for children and their families stretched beyond original capacities, affecting mental health, productivity and well-being.Informed by a nationwide survey and experiential accounts of child and adult family members, this research explores inter-relationships between social experience, psychological well-being and everyday domestic space. With a focus on the liveability of dwellings set against complex home/school/work conditions, the study also captures spatial forms of resilience that have emerged in response to COVID-19, to better support families' social and psychological well-being. These inventive responses will be synthesised through a co-design process, leading to an evidence-based 'Home-Hack Toolkit' for widespread dissemination directly to families. The broader findings will inform urgent policy-making that better supports those at risk of the pandemic's psychological and social impacts, by identifying the domestic settings and socio-spatial scenarios that present the greatest challenges to families. For longer-term structural impact, the data will also permit testing of UK domestic space standards, creating a crucial resource to inform liveable dwellings for a contemporary 'pandemic-ready' context.