"There is no such thing as a simple room." This theme issue of Interiors titled, _room, explores the complexity of rooms and their typologies. Rooms become distinct with the addition of descriptors such as bedroom, washroom, dining-room, drawing-room, anteroom, laundry-room, powder-room, or in non-domestic spaces such as-boardroom, machine-room and waiting-room. Rooms change when people become roommates, or in a nod to phonetic wordplay, to ruminate. The call for submissions to this theme issue took place at the same time the Covid-19 pandemic was emerging. The collection of submissions received turned the gaze inward as pandemic statistics revealed how quickly social life would change with the need to retreat inside where rooms were being reinvented.
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